Thursday, May 15, 2008

Serving New Immigrant Communities in the Library (book)


Cuban, S. (2007). Serving new immigrant communities in the library. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited

"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."-Reference & Research Book News