May 18, 2007

*Chatham Square Library

33 East Broadway [near Catherine St.],

New York, NY 10002-6804

*If you drive allow time, lots of it to find a parking! If you take public transportation allow 10-15 minutes to walk to library. Chinatown is a fantastic and very busy area!

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 and Songqian Lu
    • 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

2:15-3:10           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