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Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Library and Information Science Text)

Nicole A Cooke

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Description:The development of cultural competency skills and social awareness benefits LIS students, their future employers, and the library profession at large not to mention library customers and society as a whole. This textbook and comprehensive resource introduces students to the contexts and situations that promote the development of empathy and build cultural competence, examines the research in the areas of diversity and social justice in librarianship, explains how social responsibility is a foundational value of librarianship, and identifies potential employment and networking opportunities related to diversity and social justice in librarianship.A valuable book for students in graduate library and information science programs as well as LIS practitioners and researchers interested in knowing more about the topic of diversity in the profession, "Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals" addresses the political, social, economic, and technological divides among library patrons, covers transformative library services, and discusses outreach and services to diverse populations as well as how to evaluate such services, among many other topics. Appendices containing suggestions for exercises and assignments as well as lists of related library organizations and readings in related literature provide readers with additional resources."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Library and Information Science Text). To get started finding Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Library and Information Science Text), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The development of cultural competency skills and social awareness benefits LIS students, their future employers, and the library profession at large not to mention library customers and society as a whole. This textbook and comprehensive resource introduces students to the contexts and situations that promote the development of empathy and build cultural competence, examines the research in the areas of diversity and social justice in librarianship, explains how social responsibility is a foundational value of librarianship, and identifies potential employment and networking opportunities related to diversity and social justice in librarianship.A valuable book for students in graduate library and information science programs as well as LIS practitioners and researchers interested in knowing more about the topic of diversity in the profession, "Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals" addresses the political, social, economic, and technological divides among library patrons, covers transformative library services, and discusses outreach and services to diverse populations as well as how to evaluate such services, among many other topics. Appendices containing suggestions for exercises and assignments as well as lists of related library organizations and readings in related literature provide readers with additional resources."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Library and Information Science Text). To get started finding Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Library and Information Science Text), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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