Use of public libraries by immigrants

Reference and User Services Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-174

  Burke, Susan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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EID: 58249097976     PISSN: 10949054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/rusq.48n2.164     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. 2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, 2004), www.uscis.gov/graphics/ shared/statistics/yearbook/2003/2003 Yearbook.pdf (accessed Aug. 23, 2006).
2. Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung, Historical Census Statistics of the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-2000: Working Paper No. 81 (U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, 2006), www.census .gov/population/www/documentation/ twps0081/twps0081.pdf (accessed July 25, 2008).
3. The Foreign-born Population in 2004 (U.S. Census Bureau, Population Profile of the United States: Dynamic Version), www .census.gov/population/www/popprofile/files/dynamic/ForeignBorn.pdf (accessed July 25, 2008).
4. Public Library Services to New Americans: Speeding Transitions to Learning, Work and Life in the U.S. (Evanston, Ill.: Urban Libraries Council, 2003): 4.
5. Wayne A. Wiegand, An Active Instrument for Propaganda: The American Public Library During World War I (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1989): 117.
6. Lawrence J. White, The Public Library in the 1980s: The Problems of Choice (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1983);
7. Douglas Zweizig and Brenda Dervin, "Public Library Use, Users, Uses: Advances in Knowledge of the Characteristics and Needs of the Adult Clientele of American Public Libraries," in Advances in Librarianship, ed. Melvin J. Voigt and Michael H. Harris (New York: Academic Pr., 1977): 231-55.
8. Zweizig and Dervin, "Public Library Use, Users, Uses," 236.
9. Ibid., 238-40.
10. Judith Payne, Public Libraries Face California's Ethnic and Racial Diversity (Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand, 1988).
11. Carol L. Kronus, "Patterns of Adult Library Use: A Regression and Path Analysis," Adult Education 23 (Winter 1973): 115-31.
12. Zweizig and Dervin, "Public Library Use, Users, Uses."
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14. Susan Luevano-Molina, "Ethnographic Perspectives on Trans-national Mexican Immigrant Library Users," in Library Services to Latinos: An Anthology, ed. Salvadore Guerena (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000): 169-80.
15. Susan Luevano-Molina, "Mexican/Latino Immigrants and the Santa Ana Public Library: An Urban Ethnography," in Immigrant Politics and the Public Library, ed. Susan Luevano-Molina (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001): 43-63.
16. Ninfa Almance Trejo, "Impact of Proposition 187 on Public Libraries and Elementary Education in Tucson, Arizona," in Immigrant Politics and the Public Library, ed. Susan Luevano-Molina (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001): 89-100.
17. Rincon and Associates, Survey of Library Needs for North Carolina Hispanics (2000) http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/hispanic/nclibrpt.pdf (accessed Oct. 5, 2006).
18. Frances H. Flythe, Identification of the Information Needs of Newly Arrived Hispanic/Latino Immigrants in Durham County, North Carolina, and How the Public Library May Address Those Need (masters thesis, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, 2001), http://ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2666.pdf (accessed Oct. 5, 2006).
19. Beth Bala and Denice Adkins, "Library and Information Needs of Latinos in Dunklin County, Missouri," Public Libraries 43 (Mar./Apr. 2004): 119-22.
20. Payne, Public Libraries Face California's Ethnic and Racial Diversity;
21. Padilla, Public Library Services for Immigrant Populations in California;
22. Jon Sudell, "Library Service to Hispanic Immigrants of Forsyth County, North Carolina: A Community Collaboration," in Library Services to Latinos: An Anthology, ed. Salvadore Guerena (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000): 143-68;
23. Rincon and Associates, Survey of Library Needs for North Carolina Hispanics;
24. Bala and Adkins, "Library and Information Needs of Latinos in Dunklin County, Missouri."
25. Sherry Shiuan Su and Charles W. Conaway, "Information and a Forgotten Minority: Elderly Chinese Immigrants," Library and Information Science Research 17 (Winter 1995): 69-86.
26. Padilla, Public Library Services for Immigrant Populations in California.
27. Cheryl Metoyer-Duran, Gatekeepers in Ethnolinguistic Communities (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1993).
28. Public Library Services to New Americans.
29. Louis Escobar-Matute, Joa-Ming Huang, and Sara Martinez, "Language Barriers: How Do You Handle Them?" (panel presented at the annual meeting of the Oklahoma Library Association, Oklahoma City, Apr. 4, 2007).
30. Zweizig and Dervin, "Public Library Use, Users, Uses";
31. Payne, Public Libraries Face California's Ethnic and Racial Diversity;
32. Kronus, "Patterns of Adult Library Use."
33. Susan K. Burke, "Use of Public Libraries by Native Americans," Library Quarterly 77 (Oct. 2007), 429-61;
34. Kronus, "Patterns of Adult Library Use."
35. Rincon and Associates, Survey of Library Needs for North Carolina Hispanics.
36. Scott Nicholson, "Understanding Communities of Library Users through Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context," forthcoming.
37. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 2002: School Enrollment/Library Use [Computer file]. ICPSR release (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 2004; Ann Arbor, Mich.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]).
38. Burke, "Use of Public Libraries by Native Americans";
39. Rincon and Associates, Survey of Library Needs for North Carolina Hispanics.
40. Bala and Adkins, "Library and Information Needs of Latinos in Dunklin County, Missouri."
41. Flythe, Identification of the Information Needs of Newly Arrived Hispanic/Latino Immigrants.
42. Rincon and Associates, Survey of Library Needs for North Carolina Hispanics.
43. Luevano-Molina, "Ethnographic Perspectives on Trans-national Mexican Immigrant Library Users."
44. Metoyer-Duran, Gatekeepers in Ethnolinguistic Communities.
45. Trejo, "Impact of Proposition 187."
46. Su and Conaway, "Information and a Forgotten Minority."
47. Metoyer-Duran, Gatekeepers in Ethnolinguistic Communities.
48. Burke, "Use of Public Libraries by Native Americans";
49. Rincon and Associates, Survey of Library Needs for North Carolina Hispanics.