Sec. 2. National technical assistance center
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The Secretary Education, in coordination with the Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and through the solicitation of feedback from relevant stakeholders, shall establish an evaluation, documentation, dissemination, and technical assistance resource center to provide appropriate information, training, and technical assistance to States, political subdivisions of States, federally recognized Indian Tribes, tribal organizations, institutions of higher education, State and local educational agencies, and individual students and educators with respect to— hiring and retaining social workers in libraries; and carrying out programs to facilitate the placement of social workers in libraries on a temporary or permanent basis.
The center established under subsection
(a)shall conduct activities for the purpose of— developing and continuing statewide or tribal strategies for improving the effectiveness of the social work and library workforce; studying the costs and effectiveness of library social work programs at institutions of higher education to identify areas of improvement and provide information on relevant issues of importance to State, Tribal, and national policymakers; working with Federal agencies and other State, Tribal, and national stakeholders to collect, evaluate, and disseminate data regarding social work ratios, outcomes and best practices of services provided, and the impact of expanding the number of social workers within libraries; and establishing partnerships among National, State, Tribal, and local governments, and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, libraries, nonprofit organizations, and State and national trade associations for the purposes of— data collection and dissemination; establishing a library social work workforce development program; documenting the success of library social work methods on a national level; and conducting other activities as determined appropriate by the Secretary of Education.