Resources: Multicultural Programming in Public Libraries

ALA Professional Resources: New Immigrants

http://www.ala.org/tools/atoz/new-immigrants
Wealth of resources, including books to do further research and links to other helpful organizations

Library Bill of Rights

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill
Can be useful in proving the importance of providing services to all people when gaining staff buy-in

North Carolina Library Association

Katharin Peter gave a presentation about utilizing Census data, and its archived here. Search for Help! Im an
Accidental Government Information Librarian presents ... Just the Facts, Maam! Getting Started with the U.S.
Census & American FactFinder (June 12, 2013)
http://www.nclaonline.org/government-resources/help-im-accidental-government-information-librarian-webinars#0
6-12-2013

United States Census Bureau

https://www.census.gov/en.html
Youll find lots of information here, but its not as well-organized as one would like. Its worth checking out a
webinar to best utilize all the data. The Language Mapper tool is excellent but it doesnt always load properly.
https://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/data/language_map.html

Collection Development Resources Grants

Baker and Taylor Dollar General Literacy Foundation

http://www.btol.com/ http://www2.dollargeneral.com/dgliteracy/Pages/index.aspx
Spanish materials and small collections of some other languages DGLF supports literacy programs for all ages. You must
have a Dollar General store in your librarys area.
China Sprout
http://www.chinasprout.com/ ProLiteracy
Chinese cultural education products
https://proliteracy.org/What-We-Do/Programs-Projects/Natio
nal-Book-Fund
Hairenik Association, Inc.
Funds the purchase of literacy materials for adults
http://hairenik.com/product/books/
Armenian materials
Target
Ingram Library Services https://corporate.target.com/corporate-responsibility/grants
http://www.ingramcontent.com/libraries Target provides small grants (usually $500) for educational
Spanish and Mandarin materials and small collections of some organizations.
other languages
Wish You Well Foundation
Schoenhofs https://www.wishyouwellfoundation.org/
http://www.schoenhofs.com/ Supports programs for adult and family literacy
French, German, Italian, and Spanish materials

Weston Woods
Contact Me:
https://westonwoods.scholastic.com/products/westonwoods/inde
x.asp Denise Robinson
Spanish audio visual materials, especially audiobooks denise.r.robinson@gmail.com

Denise Robinson 2017