Immigrants and InformationTeam TERPS

Connor SmithEmily Hiner

Maya Riser-KositskyTJ Hool

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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

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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.