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Barriers to Information: How Formal Help Systems Fail Battered Women (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science)
Barriers to Information How Formal Help Systems Fail Battered Women - Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science Author:Roma M. Harris, Patricia Dewdney Employs an information science perspective to analyze social service program delivery to abused women. Ordinary citizens face a frustrating and increasingly complex maze of human service agencies when they seek help for everyday problems, even though "one stop" information and referral centers have been established to facilitate information seek... more »ing in many communities. This book explores the effectiveness of information and referral agenices in meeting the needs of battered women, and concludes that most available services are inadequate.« less