Providing Traditional Library Services for Introverts
By offering services in a variety of formats and access points, we can ensure that patrons of all personality types feel comfortable finding the information they need to use our libraries! Here are a few examples of how you could alter more traditional services to meet the needs of introverts.
Videos
These are a great way to engage patrons in literacy and teaching by offering instruction in a non-confrontational way. It allows patrons to learn in their own time and from any location with a wifi connection. These are great to advertise throughout the library or on a library website.
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Alternative Access Points
The Kitchener Public Library offers readers advisory service online through 'May We Suggest'. Patrons are able to request reading suggestions by filling out a form online and submitting through email, thereby minimizing the face-to-face social interaction that introverts may find over-stimulating. KPL has provided a different access point for patrons to access the same service of readers advisory, therefore expanding the reach of people who would use this service in their community.