Serving New Immigrant Communities in the Library
Price: $40.00
ISBN13: 9781591582977
ISBN10: 1591582970
Book code: LU2970
Libraries Unlimited
Paperback
| 272 pages
Publication Date: 04/30/2007
DESCRIPTION
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.
Learn how to assess your library's performance with growing immigrant populations and build strong bridges with new members of the community.
REVIEWS
"Serving New Immigrant Communities in the Library offers a guide to developing library services for new immigrant communities....This is a well researched book, documented in the 20-page "Selected Bibliography." It is enriched with anecdotes and profiles from the author's research and experience with immigrant communities. It is recommended for all libraries that serve immigrant communities."?
"Cuban provides a guide for librarians interested in developing their institution's services for new immigrant communities. Coverage includes knowing and planning for new immigrants' needs, assessing community needs and assets, gathering resources for serving new immigrant communities, communicating competently with new immigrant communities, changing library policies to meet new needs, accommodating new immigrants with library services, building multicultural collections for new immigrant communities, and connecting new immigrants to learning opportunities."?
CONTENTS
Foreword by Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Serving New Immigrant Communities
Chapter 1: Knowing and Planning for New Immigrants' Needs
Chapter 2: How to Assess Community Needs and Assets
Chapter 3: Gathering Resources for Serving New Immigrant Communities
Chapter 4: Communicating Competently with New Immigrant Communities
Chapter 5: Changing Library Policies to Meet New Immigrant Needs
Chapter 6: Accomodating New Immigrants with Library Services
Chapter 7: Building Multicultural Collections for New Immigrant Communities
Chapter 8: Connecting New Immigrants to Learning Opportunities
Final Thoughts: A Dynamic Future for Work with Immigrants
Selected Bibliography
Index
Sondra Cuban is a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, England. A former ESOL and ABE teacher, she also worked as a librarian in Hawai'i.