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Information Services to Diverse Populations - Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Paperback)
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Information Services to Diverse Populations - Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Paperback)
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Filling a gap in the existing library and information science
literature, this book consolidates recent research and best
practices to address the need for diversity and social justice in
the training and education of LIS professionals. 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. Addresses perennially
important and emerging hot topics in librarianship, such as
diversity, cultural competence, and social responsibility Updates
the ongoing discussion on cultural competence and diversity with
new concepts, such as critical race theory Authored by an expert
who actively teaches and conducts research in the subject areas of
library instruction and information literacy as well as diversity
and social justice in librarianship
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