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Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research

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Understanding Crisis Information Needs in Context: The Case on Intimate Partner Violence Survivor
Lynn Westbrook for her work on "Understanding Crisis Information Needs in Context: The Case on Intimate Partner Violence Survivor," Library Quarterly 78 (3): 237-261.  The study examines the role public libraries can play in providing the information needs of victims of intimate partner violence. Data was collected from two populations and two data-gathering methods and analyzed throught the lens of everyday-life-information-seeking theory.

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