Public Libraries : Celebrating Diversity

Authors

Rajeswari ChelliahFollow
Justin A. Brown, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Barbara Combes, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Presentation

Keywords

Community Building, multiculturalism, information needs and barriers, migrant issues, qualitative data analysis, content analysis. Public library services, inclusion, equity, client centred library, reinventing libraries. Model for sustainable libraries, social capital, Social integration, history of libraries

Faculty

Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School

School of Computer and Security Science

Comments

This powerpoint was originally presented as : Chelliah, R. Brown, J. & Combes, B. (2012). Public Libraries : Celebrating Diversity [power point slides], presented at the International Conference on Libraries (ICOL), 2-4 July, held at Kota Bahru, Malaysia. More information on the conference is available here

Related Publications

a. Chelliah, R. (2016). Community Building, Multiculturalism and the Suburban Public Library: Community, Cohesion and Sustainability. Qualitative Data From Interviews on Western Australian Migrants' Information Needs & Quantitative Web Survey Data On Service Provision At Australian Public Libraries, 2011-2012. Edith Cowan University. http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/75/56cc126d627d9

b. Chelliah, R. (2014). Community building, multiculturalism and the suburban public library. Retrieved from http://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1524

c. Chelliah, R. (2013) Diversity and equity : community building strategies in public libraries for multicultural communities. Poster session presented at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly,17-23 August 2013, Singapore. Access poster here

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