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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

hey I worked in mental health with criminally insane murderers/sexual offenders...it was a dangerous work environment, but not the worst of humanity in my book of ugly.
at least they are insane.
child sexual abusers and baby torturers top my list for depravity.
especially heinous because most of them are family members or mother's boyfriend.

Since you seem to have some expertise in the area of victims' experiences, I would like to get your opinion on what this group might like to see in public, law, medical, and other type libraries? Since I basically got kicked out of the law librarianship profession in mid-1991 which was made quite clear to me at the law library convention in New Orleans in the Summer of 1991 and then cemented even further at the law librarianship convention in San Francisco in the Summer of 1992; I tried to do something with my own extremely limited resources about a niche I had found in my library meanderings from late February of 1976 through then. I ordered a copy of the National Organization for Victim Assistance Directory of Victim Assistance Programs and Resources and wrote maybe 1000 of these programs listed in this Directory and asked them what they would like to see in libraries of different types especially public and law libraries. This was a technique taught at the Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management at the University of Denver (Class of May, 1984) in the Collection Development course. You go to a group you serve or would like to serve and get an idea of what they would like to see in your library.

Of course, I recommended this NOVA Directory as being one of the most important reference volumes that should be in libraries.

I became quite a pest of libraries and librarians as being blackballed gives you a lot of free time. And, after I had gone to the then Librarian of Congress for help, the then Law Librarian of Congress (M. Kathleen Price) who I had worked under at the University of Minnesota Law Library from around 1988 through 1990, had said that access to victims' rights information in libraries was important but it would take ALL libraries to address this issue. Kind of like a lawyer asking for one file and getting sent the whole archives of some place.

I would like to get more input on this especially with respect to Villages' area libraries, websites, Sheriff's Department websites and the like. What would be useful for a victim/survivor to have access to that would make their lives easier to deal with in the short and long run?