Schedule

 

10:30 - 11:00   Library Tour

11:10 - 12:00   How to coordinate new services @ your library: real-life successful cases

   * Working with Teens on Detention by Vikki Terrile

   * Serving Persons with Disabilities by Carrie Banks and Barbara Klipper

   * Yoshio Kishi & Irene Yah Ling Sun Collection of Asian Americana: New collection at NYU (presented by APALA) by Dylan Yeats


12:00 - 1:00    Lunch & Networking

1:10 - 2:10      Libraries Serving Multi Ethnic Populations

   * NYPL/ Donnell Library (presented by CALA) by Hung-Yun Chang
 
   * Arlington County Public Library, Virginia by Diana Gates, Multicultural Services Manager at Arlington PL

   * Black Heritage Collection at Langton Hughes Library and Community Center (Presented by BCALA) by Andrew Jackson and B. Johnson



2:10 - 3:00     "Diversity Counts: Where do we go from here?" by Mario Ascencio and other two librarians


3:10-3:30       Reflections and conclusion of the Mini-Conference
 

 

Please, direct any questions, comments, suggestions or ideas to Loida.Garcia-Febo@queenslibrary.org

 

Organizing Committee:

Miguel Garcia-Colon, REFORMA Northeast President

Libbhy Romero, REFORMA Northeast Vice-President/President Elect

Loida Garcia-Febo, REFORMA Northeast Immediate Past-President