Provides an excellent text on public library services to diverse groups and multiculturalism in public libraries, including a detailed exposition of immigration law.
Acknowledgments Foreword Public Libraries and Americanization, 1876 through 1940s Public Libraries and the Beginning of Federal Funding in the 1950s Public Libraries and Civil Rights in the 1960s Public Libraries and Racial and Ethnic Awareness in the 1970s Public Libraries and Multiculturalism in the 1980s Public Libraries and Globalism in the 1990s Afterword Bibliography Index
PLUMMER ALSTON "AL" JONES JR. is Associate Professor of Library Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. He received the first biennial Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award in 1993 from the ALA Library History Round Table for his dissertation, American Public Library Services to the Immigrant Community, 1876-1948. His book, Libraries, Immigrants, and the American Experience, was published in 1999 by Greenwood Press. For his service as North Carolina Library Association President (1999-2001) and on the State Library Commission (1997-2001), he was made a member of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine by North Carolina Governor Michael F. Easley in 2002. He was presented the 2004 David Cohen/EMIERT Multicultural Award by the ALA Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table for his research and publications on multiculturalism in libraries.
"This well-researched treatise on the history of American public
library services for immigrants and minorities from 1876 to 2003
places library practice and the library profession within the
context of events that shaped legal and judicial decisions
affecting minority populations and their impact on library service
in an increasingly multicultural society....[J]ones reviews the
role of the American Library Association as an advocate for the
rights of all residents to have free and open access to library and
information services. He traces ALA policies regarding intellectual
freedom; the establishment of federal funding opportunities for
public libraries; minority librarians, and library school students;
and opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act. Recommended for all library
school libraries, library consortia, or academic libraries that
support a library curriculum."-Booklist/Professional Reading
?[U]seful as a reference work....This book would be a useful
addition to collections concerning public library services to
disadvantaged patrons.?-Libraries & Culture
?This publication will serve as a very useful handbook on the
chronology of library services with minorities.?-Multicultural
Review
?This well-researched treatise on the history of American public
library services for immigrants and minorities from 1876 to 2003
places library practice and the library profession within the
context of events that shaped legal and judicial decisions
affecting minority populations and their impact on library service
in an increasingly multicultural society....[J]ones reviews the
role of the American Library Association as an advocate for the
rights of all residents to have free and open access to library and
information services. He traces ALA policies regarding intellectual
freedom; the establishment of federal funding opportunities for
public libraries; minority librarians, and library school students;
and opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act. Recommended for all library
school libraries, library consortia, or academic libraries that
support a library curriculum.?-Booklist/Professional Reading
"ÝU¨seful as a reference work....This book would be a useful
addition to collections concerning public library services to
disadvantaged patrons."-Libraries & Culture
"[U]seful as a reference work....This book would be a useful
addition to collections concerning public library services to
disadvantaged patrons."-Libraries & Culture
"This publication will serve as a very useful handbook on the
chronology of library services with minorities."-Multicultural
Review
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