Projects

DACCO Women’s Rehab Library

With funding from LSTA and IMLS grants, the Responsive Librarianship Lab designed a therapeutic library for the women residents of the Drug Abuse Comprehensive Coordinating Office, Inc. (DACCO) facility in Tampa, Florida. The DACCO Residential Treatment Library can be found on WorldCat and now offers services to the center and its residents that focus on providing therapeutic outcomes consistent with their treatment goals. Service promises include circulation, reference services, and health literacy instruction. The library collection is made up of fiction, non-fiction, self-help books, young-adult fiction, and therapeutic-based graphic novels, and is offered in print, audio, and electronic book formats. A portion of the collection is also available in Spanish. Circulation services are provided to residents and the mental health professionals of DACCO. These circulation services also include preparing materials for inter-library loan. Reference services are available to help the residents with information about their treatment, job searching, and skills development. Health literacy and bibliotherapy support are also major functions of the library.

Circulation Policies

All materials in the DACCO Residential Treatment Library are available to the public through an agreement with the Tampa Bay Library Consortium or by contacting the library staff below. All materials can be found online at DACCO catalog.

Staff

The DACCO Residential Treatment Library and the USF School of Information's library (LIBR & INFO SCI) are administered by professional librarians who have completed a library education program accredited by the American Library Association. You can contact the current administrator below:

Peter Cannon, MLIS, PhD
(813) 974-1308