Librarians Serving Diverse Populations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Librarians Serving Diverse Populations write by Lori Mestre. This book was released on 2010. Librarians Serving Diverse Populations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A qualitative and quantitative assessment and research study of the paths and experiences of librarians whose duties include serving diverse cultures. Through surveys, interviews, and evaluation of documents, the author explores issues and challenges raised by the results of the research study. Mestre provides recommendations for improvements to curricula and training at Library Schools, for libraries seeking someone to fill positions such as diversity librarian positions, for follow-up training and support after librarians are hired and for how to strengthen diversity efforts. Also included are two chapters that provide guidance for getting started as a liaison for diversity and cross-cultural efforts in academic libraries. This book is the first such research study in academic librarianship.
Information Services to Diverse Populations
Information Services to Diverse Populations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information Services to Diverse Populations write by Nicole A. Cooke. This book was released on 2016-12-12. Information Services to Diverse Populations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Filling a gap in the existing library and information science literature, this book consolidates recent research and best practices to address the need for diversity and social justice in the training and education of LIS professionals. The development of cultural competency skills and social awareness benefits LIS students, their future employers, and the library profession at large—not to mention library customers and society as a whole. This textbook and comprehensive resource introduces students to the contexts and situations that promote the development of empathy and build cultural competence, examines the research in the areas of diversity and social justice in librarianship, explains how social responsibility is a foundational value of librarianship, and identifies potential employment and networking opportunities related to diversity and social justice in librarianship. A valuable book for students in graduate library and information science programs as well as LIS practitioners and researchers interested in knowing more about the topic of diversity in the profession, Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals addresses the political, social, economic, and technological divides among library patrons, covers transformative library services, and discusses outreach and services to diverse populations as well as how to evaluate such services, among many other topics. Appendices containing suggestions for exercises and assignments as well as lists of related library organizations and readings in related literature provide readers with additional resources.
Library Services for Multicultural Patrons
Library Services for Multicultural Patrons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library Services for Multicultural Patrons write by Carol Smallwood. This book was released on 2013. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Increasingly, libraries are struggling to deal with a growing diversity in the cultural background of their patrons. Problems arising from this cultural diversity afflict all library types--school, public and academic. Library Services for Multicultural Patrons is by and for all libraries that are striving to provide multicultural services to match the growing diversity in the cultural background of patrons. The 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. The chapters are divided into the following categories for ease of access: 1) Getting Organized and Finding Partners, 2) Reaching Students, 3) Community Connections, 4) Applying Technology, 6) Outreach Initiatives, 6) Programming and Events, and 7) Reference Services. Librarians of all types will be pleased to discover easy-to-implement suggestions for collaborative efforts, many rich and diverse programming ideas, strategies for improving reference services and library instruction to speakers of English as a second language, marketing and promotional tips designed to welcome multicultural patrons into the library, and much more.
Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries
Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries write by Shannon D. Jones. This book was released on 2019-07-24. Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The news and scholarly literature are replete with stories and articles describing the challenges that diverse individuals face in their local communities and workplaces. Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for Success is arranged in three parts: Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter, Equipping the Library Staff, and Voices from the Field. This book tackles these issues head on and should appeal to a broad audience interested in diversity as it relates to libraries and librarianship, including professional librarians and paraprofessional library staff. Offering best practices strategies tempered by experiences and wisdom, this book will help libraries realize a high level of inclusion.
So You Want To Be a Librarian
So You Want To Be a Librarian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook So You Want To Be a Librarian write by Lauren Pressley. This book was released on 2014-05-14. So You Want To Be a Librarian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Provides information about librarianship as a career, including types of libraries, types of jobs within libraries, professional issues, and educational requirements"--Provided by publisher.
