   
Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations
No. 2
Spring / Summer
Souad Hubert, editor
Chair's letter
Dear Friends,
After a successful mid-year meeting in New-York, the section is preparing its activities for the conference in Amsterdam. You will read in this Newsletter the programme of activities sponsored by the section.
The standing committee would be very interested in meeting you, the section's members during one of the Standing Committee meetings and discuss with you the kind of activities or services that you would like us to build up or improve in the next years.
All the members of the Standing Committee will of course be available during the whole conference. So, please come and join us in that event. Enjoy your summer, see you in Amsterdam.
Highlights
The 64th IFLA general conference will be the highlight of the season. It will take place in Amsterdam from 16th to 21st of August.
The conference theme is: CROSSROADS OF INFORMATION AND CULTURE.
Here is the preliminary programme
Friday, August 14
Morning: Professional Board
Afternoon: Executive Board
Co-ordinating boards, divisions
Saturday, August 15
All day: Standing commitees and executives committees
Afternoon: Regional caucuses (late)
Evening: IFLA officers reception (invitation only)
For Multicultural Section: Hotel Okura, room: starlight 1. (14: 2914: 29)
Sunday, August 16
During day: Introduction to IFLA newcomers,
Open forums, core programmes and UNESCO open forum. Discussion groups
Evening: Exhibition opening and welcome reception
Monday, August 17
All day: exhibition open
Morning: Contributed paper sessions. Divisions open forums. Section and round table programme sessions
Afternoon: Opening session followed by plenary session
Evening: Opening party
Tuesday, August 18
All day: Exhibition open
All day: Section and round table programme sessions
Midday: Guest lectures. Poster sessions
Evening: Cultural evening
Wednesday, August 19
All day: Exhibition open (closure at the end of the day)
All day: Section and round table programme sessions
Study tours/library visits (1/2 day)
Midday: Guest lectures. Poster sessions
Afternoon: Professional Board
Thursday, August 20
All day: Workshops and seminars
Study tours/library visits
Afternoon: Standing committees (late)
Evening: Library receptions
Friday, August 21
Morning: Section and round table programme sessions. Standing committees, co-ordinating boards, divisions
Midday: Professional Board. Executive Board
Afternoon: Closing session
Saturday, August 22
All day: Tour day
WORKSHOPS PLANNED FOR THE 1998 IFLA CONFERENCE IN AMSTERDAM
During the 64th IFLA General Conference, 16-21 August 1998, workshops in principle, are scheduled for Thursday, 20 August. Due to room limitations, some half-day workshops will be scheduled for Sunday, 16 August, and monday, 17 August. In most cases participation will be limited to a maximum of 50 persons, on a first come, first served basis.
HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS
Library Services to Multicultural Populations joint with Library Theory and Research. Theme: « The Need for Research in Multicultural Librarianship ».
Analyzing and understanding cultural differences: experiences from education in library and information studies. Mirja Iivonen, Diane H., Sonnewald, Maria Parma, and Evelyn Poole-Kober. The paper will be presented by Mirja Iivonen.
For information and registration: Lis Byberg, Oslo College, Faculty of Journalism, Library and information Science, Pilestredet 52, N-0167 Oslo, Norway (fax: + (47) 22 45 26 05; e-mail: lis.byberg@jbi.hioslo.no).
Satellite meeting in TrØmso
August 12-14, 1998
A satellite meeting will take place in Trømso, Norway on 12th to 14th of August 1998.
Theme: LIBRARY SERVICES TO INDEGENOUS PEOPLE
The workshops goals are
o to identify the best practise for providing library services to indigenous people.
o to initiate contacts, and if possible, ongoing co-operation and networking between librarians and library authorities dealing with library service to indigenous people in different countries.
The workshops objectives are
o To bring together librarians who provide services to indigenous people in order to share ideas about politics, services, staffing and issues surrounding library services to indigenous people.
o To develop a set of recommendations on this issue for the Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations.
Registrations on
monica@deich.folkebibl.no
(before 20th of July 1998)
Price: 300,-Nok.
Brief news regarding services to
ethnocultural groups
- QUEENS LIBRARY, N.Y.
With a Central Library and 62 branches, the Queens Library (one of New-York City's three public systems) serves a population of two million. Queens is the largest public library system in the country in terms of circulation, and the second largest in terms of holdings.
One in three Queens residents hails from another country and nearly half of the borough's residents speak a language other than English at home. The city's most ethnically diverse borough, Queens is a place in which people of more than 100 nationalities work toward common goals. Queens Borough Public Library's New Americans Program (NAP) was established in 1977 to provide special services to the area's many new immigrants.
Materials
Popular books and other materials in immigrant languages are purchased and distributed to branch libraries throughout the Queens Library system. Long-term collection planning and development are undertaken for various languages as the need arises.
Principal collection
« Say Si » (Spanish language)
101,000 items at the Central Library and 20 branches
« Namaste-Adaab » (South Asian Languages).
20 000 items in Bengali, Gujarati,
Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu and Punjabi at 8 branches. These collections were initiated in 1994.
« Ni Hao » (Chinese Language)
93,000 items at the Central Library
and 28 branches.
« Privyèt » (Russian language)
9,000 items at 9 branches.
The « Say Si » and « Ni Hao »
collections are the country 's largest
Spanish and Chinese collections for general readers.
Multi-language
Materials to help immigrants learn English
popular books in many immigrant languages available at most libraries.
« Hannara » (Korean language)
24,000 items at 14 branches.
Services
English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Classes
The largest library-managed ESL program in the country, Queens library
offers more than 70 ESL classees taught by specially trained teachers. It annually
serves nearly 3,000 students, representing 88 countries and 50 languages.
Mail-A-Book
Books mailed to Queens residents in Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Korean, Russian and Spanish.
WorldLinQ™ World Wide Web access is available to non-English speaking Queens Library customers with particular interests in Asian and Spanish-language web sites, through WorldLinQ, wich was developed with partial funding by AT & T.
It is accessible through Queens Library's homepage http//:www.queens.lib.ny.us.
Links are provided to Spanish-, Korean- and Chinese-language sites,
which appear in their native character sets. Russian and other languages will be added in the future.
Programs
Coping Skills
Free lectures and workshops in the most widely spoken immigrant languages of Queens on topics essential to new immigrants'acculturation, such as citizenship and job training information, advice on helping children learn, and information on available social services.
Cultural Programs
Free readings, concerts and workshops celebrating the literary, performing and folks arts of immigrants from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Carribean.
Publications
Queens Directory of immigrant-Serving Agencies
This award-winning compilation includes over 150 agencies that provide free or low cost social services to immigrants in Queens in 50 different languages.
Queens Borough Public Library Service Areas: An Ethnic and Language Profile Based on the 1990 Census.
Queens Borough Public Library Service Areas: A Profile of Limited English Proficiency Students in the Public School System based on SY 1992-93 Statistics.
International Migrants to Queens: A profile of Demographic and Social Characteristics Extracted from the 1990 U.S. Census.
NBLC
Isolde Vega from NBLC let us know that an article about multicultural Library services in the Netherlands will be published in the IFLA magazine 1998 « State of Art. Libraries in the Netherlands ».
In other respects, for interesting visits to public libraries in the Netherlands it is first of all interesting to refer to the presentation in one of the branches (buitenveldert) of the Amsterdam Public Library on Wednesday August 19th at 18.00 hours.
Some addresses of public libraries with multicultural activities in the Netherlands:
Public Library of Amsterdam,
general information: Mrs Isolde Vega.
- Central Library:
Keizersgracht 440
1016 GD AMSTERDAM
Tel: 020-5230900
e-mail: i. vega@oba. nl
branches:
- OB Buitenveldert
Willem van Weldammelaan 5
1082 LT AMSTERDAM
Tel: 020-6422100
- OB Indische Buurt
Soerabajastraat 4
1095 GP AMSTERDAM
Tel: 020 6681565
- OB Bos en Lommer
Tijl Uilenspiegel 12
1055 CK AMSTERDAM
Tel: 020 6867472
Public Library of the Hague
(Den Haag),
general information: Mrs. Tineke van Veen
- Central Library:
Spui 68 / 2511 BT DEN HAAG
Tel: 070-3534558
e-mail: tvv@dbadenhaag. nl
branches:
- OB Schilderswijk
Koningstraat 439
2515 JL DEN HAAG
070-3887916
- OB Transvaalkwartier
Herman Costerstraat 53
2571 EK DEN HAAG
Tel: 070-3453446
Public Library of Leiden,
general information: Mrs. A.Kaptein
- Central Library
Nieuwstraat 4
2312 KB LEIDEN
Tel: 071 514 99 43
- OB't Spoortje
Bernhardkade 38
2316 RX LEIDEN
Tel: 071 5221695
Public Library of Rotterdam,
general information: Mr. Henk Koopman
- Central Library
Hoogstraat 110
3011 PV ROTTERDAM
Tel: 010 2816100
Public Library of Eindhoven,
general information: Mr. M. haddad
- Central Library
Emmasingel 22
5611 AZ EINDHOVEN
Tel: 040 2604260
The Centro Universitario de investigaciones Bibliotecologicas (cuib), of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), is looking for information about the existing libraries services in multicultural and multilingual of chontal, chol, tzetzal and huasteca etnic comunities in Mexico.
If you have any material concerning this subject, please contact:
rgraniel@servidor. unam. mx attending to Maria del Rocio Graniel Parra.
IFLA's Nominee Wins the International Book Committee Prize, 1998!
During its meeting of 13 October 1997, the International Book Committee announced that Ms Maria José Moura, Vice President, Conselho das Bibliotecas Portuguesas, Lisbon, Portugal, was the winner of the Award. In its proposal to IBC, the professional Board stressed that Ms Moura has been the main force for changing the situation in Portugal for access to books, information and knowledge for an entire nation through lauching a public library programme that has been a tremendous success.
July 27-31, 1998.Nairobi, Kenya.
13th Standing Conference for Eastern, Central, and Southern African Librarians (SCECSAL).
Theme: « Information for Sustainable Development in the 21st century ».
For information: Jacinta Were kenya Library Association, POB 46031, Nairobi, Kenya (fax + (254-2) 214917
e-mail: uonjkm@ken.healthnet.org).
0 November 4-7, 1998. Carazdin, Croatie. International Conference on «Public Libraries in European Towns in the 21st century ». For information: Vesna Turcin, Public Library Varazdin, Z. Rogoza 10, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia (fax: + (385-1) 6155367 or + (385-4) 2212767) e-mail: gknjizmo@vz.tel.hr (or) vesna.turcin@cyport. tel.hr; http://www.inet-images.com/somware/P/coni
Future conferences
August 19-28, 1999. Bangkok, Thailand. 65th IFLA Council and General Conference. Theme: « On the Threshold of a New Century: Libraries as Gateways to an Enlightened World »
August 2000. Jerusalem, Israel.
General Conference.
Theme: « Information for Cooperation: Creating the Global Library of the future ».
August 2001. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 67th IFLA Council and General Conference.
August 2002. Glasgow, Scotland. UK. 68th IFLA General Conference.
News
EXTRACTS FROM NEW-YORK MID-YEAR MEETING,
february 27-28, 1998.
Attendance: Adriana Acauan Tandler, Souad Hubert, Kristina Virtanen, Benedikte Kragh-Schwarz, Marie Tapaninen, Antoine Carro-Réhault, Barbara Von Wahlde, Marie Zielinska, Lucille Thomas, Suzine Har Nicolescu.
Proposal «UAP PROGRAM» with European Comunity DGXXII
Antoine presented a letter from Graham Cornich UAP asking the section for cooperation on a program granted by the European Union on minorities languages, it has been decided to go back to Graham Cornich and invite him to an Amsterdam SC, and see what will be his contribution and ours.
Anyway, it seems a good opportunity for a close connection with all the people working on cultural minorities.
Antoine will provide the DGXXII program to all members.
BANGKOK 1999:
Cooperation with the «Management and Marketing» section.
Maria Tapaninen had contact with Swedish colleagues of this section and they suggested a commun activity about Marketing, the multicultural library services.
There is no decision yet about the form: open session, 1/2 workshop?
The section agreed to provide two speakers.
JERUSALEM 2000:
General discussion takes place about the satellite meeting suggested to organize in Jerusalem with a multicultural book fair. The concept seems too vague for members. Should it be an exhibition instead of a bookfair. Isn't too difficult to organize?
What are the exact objectives?
In connection of the 20th anniversary of the section, wouldn't be more interesting to have an historical of the view of the section work. Marie Zielinska suggested a theme: «Multiculturalism and 3rd millenium, retrospective overview and future trends with special respect to library services.
The section asks Antoine to clarify the project to provide with objectivities and ways of implementation and tracks de cooperation.
Marie was interested in participating in the organizing team.
Communication Matters
Translation:
- Brochure: the brochure should be translated to many languages. First to French, Spanish, German, and Russian (according to nationality of SC members). Suzine and Adriana will be in charge of a new design with more colours and updated information.
- Aarhus papers. Considering the interest of Aarhus papers, every effort should be done to have them translated into at least 2 foreign languages. We don't have money within the section. Antoine will imagine to raise some money for this.
- Amsterdam papers. It is IFLA's rule that the papers at the conference should be provided into foreign languages. It is the responsability of the Chair to collect, papers in their original language and find translators. It means that the papers have to be sent to the chair, to be sent at a reasonable delay to be translated, (31th of march, deadline indicated by IFLA PB).
For the next workshop at Amsterdam, Ulla Britt Nordin Siebolds, and Kristina Virtanen must send the papers as soon as possible to the chair.
2001 Conference Boston
Barbara proposal for a satellite meeting on «the impact of new media and technology on multicultural» or «the growth of multiculturalism in the world».
The section agreeed warmly on Barbara's proposal and asked her to go on with the project and report at next meetings.
Kristina Virtanen will see the possiblity of inviting the SC mid-winter 1999, in Helsinki.
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