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A library’s efforts en route to salvaging a vanishing culture
Zhang Hongxia
The library of Hainan University in China has assumed an active role, being involved in various activities to salvage, excavate, study and develop the Li traditional culture.

Building to last: modeling sustainable community in Arlington County Public Library
Kresh

Community languages online
State Library of Victoria : VICNET

Delivering a strategy for working with Māori, and developing responsiveness to an increasingly multicultural population: a perspective from the National Library of New Zealand
Mohi, J & Roberts W.D

Enhanced career and job search services to immigrants at the Vancouver Public Library
De Castell, C, Fu, J & Olsen, A,

Fostering linguistic diversity along our own ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’
Reznowski , G

IFLA Journal
IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section

Impact of multiculturalism, cultural diversity and changing demographics on Richmond Public Library’s multilingual services
Jang,W

Library education connecting and building communities: engaging students in diverse communities
Chu C M

Multicultural Canada, multicultural to intercultural : Libraries connecting communities
Copeland, L

Multilingual Web: Standards and best practices for the Multilingual Web
Links to slides, to video clips, and to the IRC log for the W3C workshop held in Madrid, 26-27 October 2010, entitled "The Multilingual Web - Where Are We?".

Municipal Ikuno Library: The first public library to offer multicultural library services in Japan
Yano, A, Osaka

Musings on libraries & multilingual internet access
Cunningham, A

New communities emerging content
Lo Bianco, N, Cunningham, A and McCombe, C
A report focusing on digital inclusion for new and emerging commmunities including S'gaw Karen, Dinka and Harari speakers in the Wyndham Region of Victoria.

Public library resources and programs for Mediterranean language groups in Australia
Hall, Anne
This paper was presented in Palermo, Sicily at the 2009 IFLA Satellite Meeting:Libraries and Society. A Pan-Mediterranean Perspective. It provides a short history of the arrival of Pan Mediterranean communities with statistics of the language groupings and the resources held in Australian public libraries. Examples of best practice services in NSW public libraries demonstrate how public libraries support these diverse communities. The benefits of partnerships with other libraries and community organizations is emphasized. Examples of how libraries and museums are preserving the cultural heritage and memories of communities is provided. This paper also addresses and shares the current challenges faced including providing resources for the aging populations of some of the language groups and sourcing resources for the newest arrivals

Serving patrons in their language, not just ours
McGlamery,S & Ulrich, P.S
Describes two models for providing a multilingual, multinational community reference service : The Global Reference Network (GRN), and the online Multilingual Collaborative Reference Services provided by Berlin Central and Regional Library

Sustaining language diversity: the role of public libraries.
Cooper, D

Technology rejuvenates neglected languages

Technology's refuge : The use of technology by asylum seekers and refugees
Leung, Linda
This research by Linda Leung investigated the use of Information communication technologies (ICT) by refugees during flight, displacement and in settlement. It examined the impact of Australia’s official policy of mandatory detention on how asylum seekers and refugees maintain links to diasporas and networks of support. Given the restricted contact with the world outside of the immigration detention centre, the study juxtaposed forms and processes of technology-mediated communication between institutionalised detention with those of displacement and settlement. The research found that while there were obstacles to communication in situations of conflict and dislocation, asylum seekers and refugees are able to ‘make do’ with the technology options available to them in ways which were less constrained than in detention settings. Communication practices during the settlement process focused on learning new technologies, and repairing the disconnections with family members resulting from separation and detention.

The role of public libraries in multicultural relationships (report for Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 2007)
Carpenter Helen

The Service Offer of Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec to Newcomers and Cultural Communities
Chagnon, D