State
Spotlight:
Department
of Drug and Alcohol Resource Center Library
The State
of California’s Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (ADP) is
dedicated to “supporting healthy individuals and communities free of
alcohol and other drug problems.” One program ADP leaders have devised
to “support” Californians is a library, the ADP
Resource Center.
“We loan
to California libraries through our interlibrary loan service,” says
Cynthia Castillo, ADP Resource Center analyst, “but we want more
libraries to tap into our resources.” Castillo encourages people who
work in California’s libraries to search the ADP
publications catalog when customers are seeking facts about alcohol and drug
prevention, use, and abuse. On the catalog site, library staff will find a
collection of “specialized alcohol and other drug reference sources
including books, journals, reports and audio visual materials,” says
Castillo.
Many
Californians, Castillo has found, are unsure where to go for impartial
alcohol and drug information. “Our services are here for anyone who is
interested in learning about the harmful effects of alcohol and drugs,”
she says. If a public library, for example, has a customer who is looking
for statistics on drug or alcohol use, or wants to learn more about a
specific drug or treatment issue, the ADP Resource Center is an excellent
resource.
Very
popular among borrowers, according to Castillo, are DVDs and VHS
videotapes with titles such as “Drug Use and Addiction,” “Co-Occurring
Disorders,” “Mental Health and Drugs,” and “Methamphetamine, A
Prevention Trilogy.” The audio-visual items are, Castillo says, “learning
tools for not just treatment programs, prisons, school prevention
programs, but also community action groups.”
The
Resource Center has a clearinghouse that maintains over 600 alcohol and
drug booklets, pamphlets, research papers, posters, technical manuals and
other printed materials that are free to anyone who wants them. Interested
parties can preview the clearinghouse catalog from the ADP
website, download the order form and request whatever they wish. The
clearinghouse also supports community meetings, conferences, and
workshops.
For more
information about the ADP Resource Center please visit their website at www.adp.cahwnet.gov/RC/rc_sub.shtml
or call 1-800-879-2772.
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