The American Indian Library Association, an affiliate of the American Library Association, is a membership action group that addresses the library-related needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives. AILA holds business meetings twice a year in conjunction with the American Library Association and publishes the American Indian Libraries Newsletter semi-annually.
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association serves as an advocate for the development, promotion, and improvement of library services and resources to the nation's African American community; and provides leadership for the recruitment and professional development of African American librarians.
DIAL-South (Diversity in Academic Libraries) is an Interest Group (Facebook) of CARL (California Academic & Research Libraries) Southern region. The mission of DIAL-South is to advocate equality and diversity, primarily for racial/ethnic communities but also other diverse populations within the library profession and academic libraries.
The Multicultural portal is Library and Archives Canada's (LAC) gateway to multicultural and multilingual resources. The gateway offers targeted resources for information service providers who work with diverse communities, as well as entry points for new Canadians, educators, students, and researchers.
GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network,
envisions a future in which every child learns to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or
gender identity/expression. Resources include an online documents library, curricular materials, and links to
local chapters including Cleveland
and Cincinnati.
In November, 2004, the New Jersey State Library
sponsored a one-day conference, One Community New Jersey: Diversity in Libraries.
Besides conference materials, handouts, and links to sponsors, this site includes a must-see
set of resource guides on staffing, organizational
climate, services, and collections. While some of the links are relevant primarily to New Jersey libraries, most
are of great interest to all who are involved in library diversity work.
Hennepin County (MN) Library welcomes its diverse linguistic communities to the library with WorldLinks.
Interfaces in Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese offer links to local information and
WWW sites of interest. There are also lists of local resources for immigration, citizenship, and learning English.
This is an excellent bridge to library and community information for new residents from abroad.
North Coast Seniors Connect, developed by Cleveland Public Library, is a multifaceted
web site designed exclusively for older adults and those that care for and about them in Cuyahoga County. This project intends to
organize information integral to successful aging, create an online community in which older adults and those that care for and
about them may explore a variety of subjects, and promote computer use and training opportunities for the growing number of
older persons accessing the Internet.
The Queens Borough (NY) Public Library) provides library web interfaces in Spanish,
French, Russian, Chinese, and Korean. Its WorldLinq site offers local and worldwide resources
in Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, French, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
Reforma offers a number of valuable resources,
including "Spanish for Librarians," "Spanish Internet and Library Terminology," and a list
of bookstores and distributors with Spanish language and bilingual books.
Tolerance.org
provides resources to promote tolerance. Librarians will be particularly interested in the wealth of curricula
and classroom activities, and in the free semiannual magazine, Teaching Tolerance.
