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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
