Originally Posted by Guest

I'm only posting this to get Rickey Ricardo off as this threads avatar.

People should check the New York Public Library systems to see what they have. And in New York City you should have it in probably several dozen languages. I mean practical materials for survivors/victims of crimes.

Originally Posted by Guest

Victim Services Directory

Note I have been pushing this Directory since 2007 on TOTV. A Fort Myers Rape Crisis Center group had told me about it and their desire to see it in libraries. So I started writing all the public and law libraries in FL for them to get a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory.

Gary Corsair, a former Villages Daily Sun reporter, had done a Memorial Day 2007 article on me about my efforts to get the Florida Victim Services Directory connected to the Lake, Marion, and Sumter County Library Systems.

This might be of interest still.

Originally Posted by Guest

I had been trying to connect that (or something like it) to libraries in the 2000s. Victim Services Directory Had a lot of success with it too. It is far from re-inventing the wheel. And you are probably missing a lot of stuff just using Google. People are the major sources for aid much of the time.

And there are people -- I know some of them-- who do not use the Internet all that much.

Go to a large public law library and see what that law library might have for survivors/victims of crimes which you cannot find readily through a Google Search. I as a librarian do not see Google as being an adequate replacement for someone who knows the community and the people in it who can help a survivor/victim of crime. This will be different in the Villages from Topeka, Kansas to Gainesville, FL to Bushnell, FL to Ocala to St. Paul, MN to Juneau, Alaska.

Crime victims and survivors also readily change with technology as do what is available to them. Facebook and other social media, for instance, offer new ways of helping survivors/victims of crimes. But also create methods that criminals can make new victims/survivors.

For instance, I have had harassers and stalkers on TOTV who make me have to come up with new ways of getting through this kind of contemptible behavior. There are even now laws against cyber harassers and stalkers. I had stalkers/harassers when I was on Findlaw from 2002 through around 2006 as well as tried and succeeded with holding these people accountable in some way or changing the way Findlaw operated.

I also believe in libraries as social hubs for communities. Their having an active role in helping survivors/victims of crimes may make more people report certain kinds of often under-reported crimes and also de-stigmatize mental illness which is also a contributing factor in the creation and the targets of crimes as well. Those seen as different-- like incessantly calling someone a wackadoodle on community message boards-- are more likely than not to be victims/survivors of crimes. I have been involved with many different crimes as a survivor/victim or even as a student lawyer for defendants in these cases. And I did see what the survivor/victim was going through in these.

What is in your library? Remember that people who have not reported crimes yet do not get the help of the government. They get this help after they have reported it or have been forced to report it through various situations like a trip to the Emergency Room and a nurse or doctor asking questions.

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Only a racist would not like Ricky Ricardo, maybe RickeyD does not like his name?

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Originally Posted by Guest

Past AALL Annual Meeting Locations

I was a pest for these starting in Reno, Nevada in 1989 and going up through the one in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1996. Decided it was a waste of money sending all those snail mail letters out after 1996 to people who were going to go to these conventions. Trying to get them to actually just look at the letters I had received from lawyers, victim/witness assistance providers, Attorney Generals from various States, various association leaders, and many others.

All part of my 224 613 Project. I had been trying to get the help of CEOs, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, movie stars, movie directors, movie studio heads, soap opera stars, soap opera writers, advertisers, etc. to spotlight the problem that these received letters showed.

Future Annual Meeting Dates and Locations Will be interesting to see what happens in these future AALL meetings.

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What is in your local library or law enforcement agency for helping survivors/victims of crimes and those struggling with mental illness?

Getting rid of this threads avatar again.

Originally Posted by Wiotte

Getting rid of this threads avatar again.

Trying to make nice with tal.. .RickeyD

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Originally Posted by Guest

Getting rid of this threads avatar again.

Did not know it had an avatar. Is that Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland? Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland

The Library of Trinity College Dublin - Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College Library - Wikipedia

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Did not know it had an avatar. Is that Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland? Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland



The Library of Trinity College Dublin - Trinity College Dublin

Yes