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Immigrants and InformationTeam TERPS
Connor SmithEmily Hiner
Maya Riser-KositskyTJ Hool
Pathfinder Homepage on Wordpress
Methods
Pathfinder Services
EnglishCitizenship Aids/Resources
Education Services/Resources
Employment Resources
Healthcare Services/Resources
Language Resources/Services
Library Services
News & Media Resouces
Vietnamese
Quốc tịch Aids / Tài
Dịch vụ giáo dục / Tài
Tài nguyên ngôn ngữ /
Dịch vụ
Dịch vụ chăm sóc sức
khỏe / Tài
Dịch vụ thư viện
Tài việc làm
Tin tức & Truyền thông
Tài nguyên
SpanishCiudadanía Ayudas / Recursos
Educación Servicios / Recursos
Recursos de Empleo
Salud Recursos / Servicios
Recursos de Idiomas / Servicios
Servicios Bibliotecarios
Noticias y Medios Recursos
Healthcare● Nhom Terps Healthcare Services
Dịch vụ chăm sóc sức khỏe / Tài● Team Terps in Espanol Healthcare Services
Salud Recursos / Servicios● Team Terps in English Healthcare Services
Healthcare Services/Resources
Citizenship Services● Nhom Terps Citizenship Services
Quốc tịch Aids / Tài● Team Terps in Espanol Citizenship
ServicesCiudadanía Ayudas / Recursos
● Team Terps in English Citizenship ServicesCitizenship Resources
Library Services
Library Services
Library Services
Suggested Bookmobile Service● Bringing the library to the community● Current bookmobile service hours inconvenient to immigrants (immediately
after school on weekdays, early on weekends)
Amharic-Amharic is the third-most spoken foreign language in Washington D.C. (Modern Language Association, 2014)
Bookmobile StopsEthiopian Community Center Black Lion Market
Closest LibrariesPetworth Public Library - Washington D.C. (between Columbia Heights and Brightwood)
Vietnamese-Vietnamese is the most spoken foreign language in Montgomery County, Maryland (Rockville, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Chevy Chase, etc.)
Bookmobile StopsEden CenterHung Phat
Closest LibrariesMary Riley Styles Public Library - Falls Church, VA Silver Spring Public Library - Silver Spring, MD
Spanish-2010 Modern Language Association showed Spanish as most-spoken foreign language in Washington D.C.-Columbia Heights neighborhood has large Spanish speaking population
Bookmobile StopsPanam Latin American Youth Center
Closest LibrariesMt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library - Washington D.C. (Columbia Heights)
English - Hours of OperationSpanish - Horas de operaciónAmharic - ሰዓታት የ ግብረት (saatat ya gbrat)Vietnamese - giờ hoạt động
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Map of libraries with Korean language materials in areaKorean Viewshare
Map of libraries with Amharic language materials in areaAmharic Viewshare
Map of libraries with Vietnamese language materials in areaVietnamese Viewshare
Map of libraries with Spanish language materials in areaSpanish Viewshare
ReferencesAshton, R. J. & Milam, D. P. (2008). Welcome Stranger: Public Libraries Build a Global Village. Washington, D.C.: Urban Library
Council. http://www.urbanlibraries.org/filebin/pdfs/Welcome_Stranger_Full_Report_08.pdf
Bell, S.S. (2012). Chapter 12: Teaching other people about databases. In Librarian's Guide to Online Searching (3rd ed., pp.
251-267) CA: Libraries Unlimited.
Caidi, N., Allard, D., & Quirke, L. (2010). Information practices of immigrants. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 44(1), 491.
Chu, C. M. (1999). Immigrant children mediators (ICM): bridging the literacy gap in immigrant communities. New Review of
Childrens Literature and Librarianship, 5, 85-94.
Cillizza, C. (2014, February 28). How we stopped speaking Yiddish. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/02/28/how-we-stopped-speaking-yiddish/
Courtright, C. (2005) "Health information-seeking among Latino newcomers: an exploratorystudy." Information Research, 10(2). Retrieved fromhttp://InformationR.net/ir/10-2/paper224.html
References 2Crouse, J. (2006). Immigration, Citizenship, and Libraries. Texas Library Journal, 82(4), 140-143.
Davis, D. M. (2009). Outreach to Non-English Speakers in U.S. Public Libraries: Summary of a 2007 Study. Public Libraries, 48(4), 13-19.
Fisher, K. E., Durrance, J. C., & Hinton, M. B. (2004). Information grounds and the use of need based services by immigrants in
Queens, New York: A context-based, outcome evaluation approach. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(8), 754– 766.
Kim, S. & Yoon, J. (2012). The use of an online forum for health information by married Korean women in the United States.
Information Research, 17(2). Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/17-2/paper514.html
Maryland State Data Center. (2014). 2010 Census Data. Retrieved fromhttp://www.census.state.md.us/
Migration Policy Institute. (2014). District of Columbia: Demographics & Social. Retrieved from http://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/state-profiles/state/demographics/DC//
Migration Policy Institute. (2014). U.S. Immigrant Population and Share over Time, 1850-Present. Retrieved fromhttp://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time
References 3Modern Language Association. (2014). MLA Language Map Data Center. Retrieved from http://www.mla.org/map_data
Montgomery County - Norristown Public Library. (2014). Welcome to Bookmobile and Outreach Services. Retrieved from http://mnl.mclinc.org/bookmobile-and-branches/bookmobile-2/
Naficy, H. (2009). Centering Essential Immigrant Help on the Library Web site: The American Place (TAP) at Hartford Public
Library. Public Library Quarterly, 28(2), 162-175. doi:10.1080/01616840902892440
National Hispanic Media Coalition. (2012). Trends in Latino Mobile Phone Usage: And What They Mean For U.S. Telecommunications Policy. http://nhmc.org/sites/default/files/mobile_policy_report.pdf
Peterson, K. (2014). Including the Culturally Excluded and Socially Forgotten: Information Services for Spanish Migrant Workers in the United States. Library Quarterly, 84(3), 390-401.
Selsky, C., Luta, G., Noone, A., Huerta, E. E., & Mandelblatt, J. S. (2013). Internet access andonline cancer information seeking among Latino immigrants from safety net clinics. Journal of Health Communication, 18(1), 58-70.
Su, S. S., & Conaway, C. W. (1995). Information and a Forgotten Minority: Elderly Chinese Immigrants. Library & Information
Science Research, 19(1), 69-86.
References 4Wilson, R. (2014, November 18). The languages we speak at home, mapped by county. Retrieved from
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/11/18/the-languages-we-speak-at-home-mapped-by-county/
Woodall, E. D., Taylor, V.M., Teh, C., Li, L., Acorda, E., Tu, S., Yasui, Y., & Hislop, T. G. (2009). Sources of Health Information
among Chinese Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest. Journal of Cancer Education, 24(4), 334-340.