Library services for multicultural patrons : strategies to encourage library use / edited by Carol Smallwood and Kim Becnel.

This book is designed to offer helpful tips and practical advice to academic, public, and school librarians who want to better serve the multicultural groups in their communities. The contributors to the book are themselves practicing librarians and they share creative ideas for welcoming multicultu...

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Other Authors: Smallwood, Carol, 1939-, Becnel, Kim
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, 2013.
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Summary:This book is designed to offer helpful tips and practical advice to academic, public, and school librarians who want to better serve the multicultural groups in their communities. The contributors to the book are themselves practicing librarians and they share creative ideas for welcoming multicultural patrons into libraries and strategies for serving them more effectively. Librarians will find in these chapters tried and true tips and techniques for marketing and promotion, improving reference services for speakers of English as a second language, and enhancing programming that they can easily implement in their own libraries and communities.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780810887237
0810887231
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