Resumen de Reaching Out to Vulnerable Groups in China: a broad library with social inclusion

Li Zhaochun, Huang Qunqing

• In developing China, groups of people are facing social exclusion. They are citizens unemployed or with ill health, laborers with poor skills, teenagers in prisons, residents suffering a disaster, and peasants in remote country-side. Library service is crucial for these vulnerable groups.

  The Sun Yat-sen Library has been active in providing services to these vulnerable groups, creating 56 branch libraries countrywide. The paper describes innovative services provided to residents of a special community for families with fi nancial diffi culties, to prisoners � especially juveniles and prisoner students � to a library devastated by fl ooding, and to two remote mountain communities in Tibet.