BooksBooks published on the topics of immigration and public library services
Title Bridging cultures : ethnic services in the libraries of New York State
Edited by Irina A. Kuharets, Brigid A. Cahalan, Fred J. Gitner
Imprint: Albany, N.Y. : New York Library Association, Ethnic Services Round Table, 2001
Book Description: A collection from libraries across New York state focusing on the variety of
ways they serve and reach out to immigrant populations.
Title: From outreach to equity : innovative models of library policy and practice
Edited by Robin Osborne
Imprint: Chicago : American Library Association, 2004.
Book Description: Highlights a number of examples of outreach service, including the Infobus
serving immigrant communities.
Title: Immigrant politics and the public library
Edited by: Susan Luévano-Molina.
Imprint: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
Book Description: "This book explores the impact of the nativist movement on public library
usage among Latino and Asian immigrants."
Title: Libraries, immigrants, and the American experience
Author: Jones, Plummer Alston
Imprint: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999
Book Description: This book details the history of library services to immigrants from 1876 to today.
Title: Libraries to the people : histories of outreach
Edited by Robert S. Freeman and David M. Hovde
Imprint: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2003
Book Description: "This book is a collection of fourteen essays examining the contributions of
librarians, educators, and organizations in the United States who have endeavored to bring library
services to groups that previously did not have access."
Title: Literacy, access, and libraries among the language minority community
Edited by Rebecca Constantino
Imprint Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, c1997
Book Description: "Approaches the issue of literacy in the language minority community
from many perspectives."
Title: Serving new immigrant communities in the library
Author: Cuban, Sondra
Imprint: Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Book Description: "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."
Title: Still struggling for equality : American public library services with minorities
Author: Jones, Plummer Alston
Imprint Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
Book Description: "A companion volume to Immigrants and the American Experience (1999),
this book covers American public library services to immigrants from 1876 to 2003"
Title: Technofuturos: Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies
Edited by: Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin LaMontes
Book Description: "iTechnofuturosi challenges conventional notions of Latina/o identities,
histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of Latinidad."