Serving New Immigrant Communities in the Library - Softcover

Cuban, Sondra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591582970 ISBN 13: 9781591582977

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Learn how to assess your library's performance with growing immigrant populations and build strong bridges with new members of the community.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1591582970
• ISBN 13: 9781591582977
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272