Autism Support in the Library

[Meghan Conant]

Hi all!

I am a Grad Student at Southern Connecticut State University in the Information and Library Science program. I am doing a project on how librarians can serve adults and children with ASD. This is a topic of interest to me because my little brother-in-law has Autism and I would love to help make the world more accommodating to him and others like him :) Any thoughts, or examples of personal library experiences (good or bad) would be very helpful to me.

~Meghan

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Post by Meghan Conant
Hi all!
I am a Grad Student at Southern Connecticut State University in the Information and Library Science program. I am doing a project on how librarians can serve adults and children with ASD. This is a topic of interest to me because my little brother-in-law has Autism and I would love to help make the world more accommodating to him and others like him :) Any thoughts, or examples of personal library experiences (good or bad) would be very helpful to me.
~Meghan

Hi Meghan,

I can recall two interactions with librarians. I was fairly neutral about both.

I once asked to borrow a book and they took my library card then stamped the book then gave both back to me.

On another occasion I went to return a book and asked what I should do and they just told me to give the book to them. They checked I had handed it back by the due date and that was that.

I am not sure those examples are still relevant to your research though because they seem to use machines for those tasks now.

Dolphinius
(Male, age 40 +/- a few months, UK, self-diagnosed AS)