Author: Sondra Cuban
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313094624
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Build strong bridges with new members of your community. With this insightful guide, you will learn how to assess your current organizational performance with immigrants, gather data, and use that information to gain support for organizational initiatives. You will also discover how to adapt policies to better fit changing needs, overcome language barriers, develop public relations strategies that reach immigrants, and build culturally relevant collections, services, and programs for a changing community. Filled with quotes, anecdotes, and profiles from the author's research with immigrant communities, the book provides both a positive vision and practical plan for serving immigrants in your library, school, or organization.
Author: Amado M. Padilla
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Jennifer Koerber
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440858780
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Wondering what your library can do for your community's immigrant population? This book is replete with resources, tips, and suggestions providing valuable guidance to librarians who want to better serve this still-growing part of America's population. This up-to-date guide to developing and implementing a wide variety of services to immigrants and new Americans focuses on the practical steps of creating and promoting programs. Illustrated by success stories in libraries throughout the country, the book discusses both traditional (ESOL and citizenship classes) and transformative (legal aid and workforce development) programs and services in terms of size, type, and local political climate (e.g., sanctuary cities) at a variety of public libraries as well as in select school libraries. As changes unfold in regard to how the federal government and local communities view and treat immigrants and new Americans in their midst, this topic deserves a fresh take from the profession. The author meets that need, providing practical ideas that range from creating more accessible websites and improving wayfaring and customer service in order to overcome cultural roadblocks to dealing with backlash in communities as libraries extend outreach and partnership-building goals.
Author: Ana Ndumu
Publisher: Library Juice Press
ISBN: 9781634000826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Borders and Belonging explores the role of libraries as both places of belonging as well as instruments of exclusion, xenophobia and assimilation. For over a century, North American libraries have liaised between immigrant communities and mainstream society by providing important sociocultural and educational services. Yet, outreach efforts have largely adhered to "Americanizing" ideals that reinforce ethnocentric and fatalist attitudes particularly toward undocumented and/or underprivileged migrants, refugees and asylees. As immigration continues to dominate public consciousness and political debates, the library profession must interrogate presumptions of immigrant incompetence or inferiority; professional awe whereby librarians are uncritically positioned as rescue workers; along with inattention to the contributions of immigrants within the profession as well as U.S. and Canadian societies. Through reflective essays, original research, and critical analyses presented by a range of specialists and thought leaders, Borders and Belonging challenges readers to dismantle problematic paradigms.
Author: Amado M. Padilla
Publisher: Sacramento : California State Library Foundation
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160877520
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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4 classic titles in a stunning illustrated, hardback and cloth bound edition
Author: Mrs. Eleanor Edwards Ledbetter
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries and immigrants
Languages : pl
Pages : 46
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Author: Mr John Pateman
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 147240274X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 403
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This important book examines the potential for a new community led service model in public libraries. Using theoretical approaches to working with socially excluded community members, with a direct application of those approaches in Canadian public libraries, the authors offer a powerful and persuasive case for adopting the community led approach in libraries worldwide. The book showcases good practice and outlines the challenges to community development work. With public libraries facing budget cuts, this book offers an alternative way forward based on a community led approach to developing needs based library services. This book makes a unique contribution to public library thinking and policy, synthesising the outcomes of research and best practice at the cutting edge of library service delivery, and will be essential reading for all those researching and working in the public library sector.
Author: Grace Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Plummer A. Jones
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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This is the first full-length, national scope treatment of American public library service to immigrants, which was a central and continuing mission from 1876, when the American Library Association (ALA) was founded, through 1948, when the ALA Committee on Work with the Foreign Born (ALA CWFB) disbanded. It focuses on the leaders of the movement who provided immigrants with information, personal attention, and the guidance they needed to adjust, survive, and thrive.
