Library services for multicultural patrons : strategies to encourage library use /

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Imprint:Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11306392
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Other authors / contributors:Smallwood, Carol, 1939-
Becnel, Kim.
ISBN:9780810887237
0810887231
9780810887220
0810887223
9781283640084
1283640082
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Library services for multicultural patrons Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013. 9780810887220 (pbk.)