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Multicultural Professional Issues

Professional Practice and Service. Collection Development. Information Seeking Behavior. Subject Access. Library History. Community Networking. Internet Training. Journals. Listservs.

 



Professional Practice and Service

  • Diversity and Multiculturalism in Libraries. Edited by Katherine Hoover Hill. Greenwich, CT: Jai Press, 1994.

  • Multiculturalism in Libraries. Edited by Rosemary Ruhig Du Mont, Lois Buttlar, and William Caynon. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

  • Social Responsiblity in Librarianship: Essays on Equality. Edited by Donnarae MacCann. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1989.

  • Latino Librarianship: A Handbook for Professionals. Edited by Salvador Güereña. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.

  • Diversity Sampler - Bibliography organized by the Diversity Committee of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). Focuses on Libraries and Academe and The Arts and the Museum.

  • TRAILS - Training and Assistance for Indian Library Services - Federally funded program with the goal of providing technical and training assistance to tribal libraries throughout the U.S.

Collection Development

  • Developing Library Collections for California's Emerging Majority: A Manual of Resources for Ethnic Collection Development. Edited by Katharine T. A. Scarborough. Oakland, CA: Bay Area Library and Information System, 1990.

  • A World of Information: Creating Multicultural Collections and Programs in Canadian Public Libraries. Edited by Joanne Godin. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1994.

Information Seeking Behavior

  • Cheong-Ok Yoon. The Information-Seeking Behavior of Koreans in the United States. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, 1992.

Subject Access

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings in Spanish
    A joint project of the Oakland Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library. Approximately 1500 Library of Congress subject headings are paired with their Spanish language equivalents.

Library History

  • Plummer Alston Jones, Jr. American Public Library Service to the Immigrant Community, 1876-1948; A Biographical History of the Movement and its Leaders. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1991.

Community Networking

Internet Training

  • Learn the Net in your choice of five languages - Spanish, French, German, Italian, and English.

Journals

  • MultiCultural Review. Lyn Miller-Lachman, editor-in-chief. Published quarterly by Greenwood Publishing Group. ISSN 1058-9236.

Listservs (in alphabetical order)

 

For information about this page contact Dr. Clara M. Chu, UCLA DLIS, at: cchu@ucla.edu.

 

 

last updated 10.19.98, kmw