Still Struggling for Equality American Public Library Services with Minorities

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Library & Information Science (General)

Reviews:

• [U]seful as a reference work....This book would be a useful addition to collections concerning public library services to disadvantaged patrons.
  —Libraries & Culture Spring 2006
• This publication will serve as a very useful handbook on the chronology of library services with minorities.
  —Multicultural Review Fall 2005
• This well-researched treatise on the history of American public library services for immigrants and minorities from 1876 to 2003 places library practice and the library profession within the context of events that shaped legal and judicial decisions affecting minority populations and their impact on library service in an increasingly multicultural society....[J]ones reviews the role of the American Library Association as an advocate for the rights of all residents to have free and open access to library and information services. He traces ALA policies regarding intellectual freedom; the establishment of federal funding opportunities for public libraries; minority librarians, and library school students; and opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act. Recommended for all library school libraries, library consortia, or academic libraries that support a library curriculum.
  —Booklist/Professional Reading May 15, 2005

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Public Libraries and Americanization, 1876 through 1940s
• Public Libraries and the Beginning of Federal Funding in the 1950s
• Public Libraries and Civil Rights in the 1960s
• Public Libraries and Racial and Ethnic Awareness in the 1970s
• Public Libraries and Multiculturalism in the 1980s
• Public Libraries and Globalism in the 1990s
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Index