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Celebrating Our Community's Diversity: Welcoming Newcomers Presentation
Presentation by Helen Benoit of the Hamilton (Ontario) Public Library made to the Connecticut Library community in May 2007.
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Danbury Public Library's Talk-Time Conversational Groups
The Danbury Public Library responded to demand for English language skills opportunities with this multi-tiered program.
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Danbury's Exciting LSTA Project
Find out what the Danbury Public Library is doing for their Non-English Speaking Populations.
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ESL at the Danbury Public Library
The Danbury Public Library provides individualized English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction to Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking residents using its Praxair Learning Laboratory.
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Hartford Public Library American Place program
Supported with LSTA funding, the Hartford Public Library and its community partners are making a sustained effort to provide services to Hartford's ethnically diverse and immigrant populations.
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Hartford Public Library Features Muslim Women Speakers
Describes a program called "Muslim Immigrant Women's Voices" co-sponsored by the Library and the Hartford Public Schools' Bilingual/Bicultural Department.
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Helping Refugees at the Hartford Public Library
The Bridge is a project by the Hartford Public Library to help recently settled refugees adjust to America with the library as their living room.
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Immigrants in Connecticut: Labor Market Experiences and Health Care Access
This is a link to the Urban Institute's online (pdf) publication entitled "Immigrants in Connecticut: Labor Market Experiences and Health Care Access" published in conjunction with DemocracyWorks Connecticut.
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Learn English @ the Stratford Library
The Learn English @ the Stratford Library project provided services to those with limited English speaking ability.
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Lee y Serás
This flyer describes the Stratford Library Association's 6-week series of literacy workshops (similar to Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library) conducted in Spanish with funding from the United Way of Costal Fairfield County.
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Let's Talk project at the Ferguson Library
In order to create a welcoming environment for Stamford's growing multicultural community, the Ferguson Library organized a program of ESL and literacy tutoring, materials, and programming.
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Notes from the 9/26/06 Asian Pacific Americans in Connecticut conference
This forum was sponsored by Asian Family Services; materials included 'A Community of A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States' available online: http://www.advancingequality.org/files/ComCont.pdf.
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Translations of Library Card Application Forms
Sample library card application forms translated into 15 languages and available for libraries to use. Provided by the Connecticut State Library.
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U. S. Citizenship Orientation Packet from the Hartford Public Library
Links to resources for people applying to become naturalized U. S. citizens
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Websites and Internet Resources on Services to Immigrants
A list of external links.
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Websites and Internet Resources on Services to Non-English Speaking Populations
A list of external links
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Welcome Electronic Discussion List
Instructions for subscribing to Welcome, the electronic discussion list for libraries serving multilingual populations.
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Welcome: Connecticut Library Services to Non-English Speaking Populati
According to the 2000 Census, 18.3% of Connecticut residents speak a language other than English in the home. The State Library is exploring ways to help libraries better serve this population.
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