http://entrelib.org/conferences/2013-conference/scheduled-presenters/ In this session the second cohort of Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholars facilitate a dialogue on diversity issues that impact equity and inclusivity in the library and information field and services. Four diversity issues will be introduced through “ignite”presentations, during which experiences, perspectives, challenges and strategies and best practices related to the issues will be discussed, and will conclude with group summaries of strategies. Using a critical lens and in conversation with these recent MLIS graduates (16-20), diversity concerns and barriers in the profession will be uncovered. This proposed session is an exercise in collaborative learning and in connecting theory and practice around diversity and libraries. - Jennifer Herring, Mari Noguchi, and Touger Vang, ACE Scholars

1. Ten-Step Library Community Partnership Guide
for New Americans Resettling and Rebuilding
New Lives
Jennifer Herring
Mari Noguchi
Touger Vang
ACE Scholars, Class of 2013

2. www.ethneglobalservices.org , www.acclv.org
www.guardian.co.uk, www.reflectionsfromthealley.com

3. Persons who are
unable or unwilling to
return to their home
country due to a
“well-founded fear of
persecution” because
of race, a social group
affiliation, political
opinion, religion, or
nationality.
Section 101(a)42 of the Immigration and Nationality Act(INA)
jeffreykirk.authorsxpress.com
Refugee Camp in Darfur
Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org
Refugee Camp in west Thailand
Image source: http://rising .globalvociesonline.org
Refugee Camp in east Zaire
Image source: http://www.wikipedia.org

4. The movement of
persons into
another country
seeking permanent
residence for
various reasons,
including family,
environment,
politics, and
employment
Delegates reflected about what they wanted
from life in the future at the United We Dream
congress in Kansas City. (12/2/2012)
Credit: Dan Gill for the New York Times

5. Immigration Policy Center American Immigration Council

6.  Assimilation assistance in schools
English as a Second Language classes
Information Literacy sessions
 Communication Resources
 Health Services and Resources
 Financial Resources
 And perhaps more…

8. • United States Department of Homeland Human Services –
Office of Refugees Resettlement
• www.acf.hhs.gov
• United States Department of Secretary – Bureau of Population,
Refugees and Migration
• www.state.gov

9. Community Relations with Community Leader
or Representative
Khmer Buddhist Society

10. • Voluntary Agency (VOLAG)
• Church World Services
• International Rescue Committee
• Lutheran Immigration and Refugee
Service
• United States Conferences of
Catholic Bishops
• World Relief
Non-Profit Organizations/Centers:
• North Carolina African Services
Coalition
• UNCG Center for New North Carolinians
www.ascafrica.org

11. • The Mosaic Festival honors World Refugees Day.
• MOSAIC FESTIVAL 2013 – COMING SOON!
• Saturday, June 8th, Time: 12:00-8:00pm
(www.cwsgreensboro.org)

12. Create focus groups with New American participants

13. • Create websites, bibliographies and directories of information resources

15. Basic & Advanced English Classes, US Citizenship Class, etc.
Other programs based on their needs

16. Display New American visual arts
Offer cultural programs
Promote One City – One Book (Greensboro, NC))
http://www.greensborohistory.org/exhibits/cambodia/history.html
From Cambodia to
Greensboro Exhibit at
Greensboro Historical
Museum, Greensboro
NC
Montagnard
Backstrap
Weavers’
Interactive
Workshop
at Glenwood
Branch Public
Library, Greensboro
NC

17. Queens Library in New York
Website - http://www.queenslibrary.org/services
New Americans Program
Adult literacy
Multilingual services
Health Information
Website in Spanish

19. • Wake County Public Libraries program
• Targets refugees and immigrants

20. Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures.
1st. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 368. Print.
Kirk, Jeffrey. 10 Million to 1: Refugee Resettlement: A How-To Guide. Bloomington: Balboa Press, 2011. 180. Print.
Martin, David. The United States Refugee Admissions Program: Reforms for a New Era of Refugee Resettlement. Washington D.C.:
Brooking Institute Press, 2005. 134. Print.
Mott, Tamar. African refugee resettlement in the United States (The new Americans:Recent immigration and American Society) . El
Paso: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2009. 322. Print.
Pipher, Mary. The middle of everywhere: Helping refugees enter the American community. New York: Mariner Books, 2003. 416.
Print.
Pho, Tuvet-Lan. Southeast Asian Refugees and Immigrants in the Mill City: Changing Families, Communities, Institutions -- Thirty
Years Afterward . Woodstock: Vermont, 2008. 250. Print.