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Asian populations are among some of the fastest growing cultural groups in the US. While books on serving other target groups in libraries have been published (e.g., disabled, Latino, seniors, etc.), few books on serving library users of Asian heritage have been written. Thus the timely need for this book. Rather than a generalized overview of Asians as a whole, this book has 24 separate chapters—each on 24 specific Asian countries/cultures of East, Southeast, and South Asia—with a wealth of resources for understanding, interacting with, outreaching to, and serving library users of each culture. Resources include cultural guides (both print and online), language helps (with sample librar...
Explores the experience of Asian immigrants and the communities which they and their descendants have created in the United States, and offers information about the history, language and culture of Asian Americans' diverse countries of origin.
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"The last 20 years produced vast, rapid changes in the political landscape. As political scientists race to keep up with the changes, they produce enormous volumes of literature. This prodigious work tracks that scholarship, supplementing previous editions and providing detailed annotations describing the content of all of the key resources in the field. Researchers, students, librarians, and laypeople will find this scholarly yet accessible book an indispensable tool to locate those resources."--BOOK JACKET.
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PThis compendium offers up-to-date coverage of every state in the U.S., plus Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia and U.S. Caribberean and Pacific Dependencies. Reach for this single-volume resource for quick, comparable information.
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