Projects

Morton Plant Pediatric Recovery Library

In 2019, a project team established the Morton Plant Pediatric Library (MPPL) at the Morton Plant North Bay Hospital Recovery Center, a 72-bed, co-ed facility and the only freestanding psychiatric hospital in Pasco County, FL. The project is using a framework of Responsive Librarianship, a data-driven research scheme dedicated to the delivery of personalized library services in response to an individual's mental health concern.

With over 300 titles in the collection, the project is growing to include group sessions and health literacy education, supported by a grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The catalog can be found online at Morton Plant catalog. Titles in the catalog are tagged with themes, age ranges, and genres. A list of tags and bibliotherapy collection development resources can be found under Resources-Catalogs.