Resources

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Books and Articles

Camarota, Steve A. Immigrants at Mid-Decade: A Snapshot of America's Foreign-Born Population in 2005. The Center for Immigration Studies, December 2005.

"Library Services to Immigrants and Non-Native Speakers of English: From Our Past to Our Present." Bookmobiles and Outreach Services 6, no.2, 21-34, 2003.

Novotny, Eric. "Library Services to Immigrants: the Debate in the Library Literature, 1900-1920, and a Chicago Case Study." Reference and User Services Quarterly, Summer 2003.

Plummer, Alston Jones, Jr. Libraries, Immigrants, and the American Experience. Greenwood Press, 1999.

Web Resources

ALA Diversity Council

Bilingual Books for Kids

The City of Austin - New Immigrants Center

Continental Book Company

The Diversity Leadership Academy

The Illinois New Americans Immigrant Policy

New Americans United

The Queens Library New Americans' Project

The Resolution in Support of Immigrants' Right to Free Public Library Access (REFORMA and the American Library Association)

SBD Spanish Book Distributors

Spanish Multimedia

Also see the New American United site for additional information and resources.

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