<i>International developments</i>: The North Carolina foreign language center: A public library service

Valentine, Patrick M.

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“…For twenty-two years, the library would be the recipient of federal funds in the form of continuing LSCA grants to develop a foreign-language collection for the use of the state of North Carolina. 17 Four years after the establishment of the NCFLC, in the fall of 1980, Library Trends published a survey of library services to non-English-language ethnic minorities in the U.S. taken by Natalia B. Bezugloff, Head of the Foreign Literature Department of the Cleveland Public Library. She contacted 127 public libraries offering multilingual library services in all 50 states, including North Carolina.…”

Section: North Carolina Foreign Language Center (Ncflc)mentioning

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Public Library Adult Education for Immigrants in North Carolina

Jones

2015

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In the period from 1876, the founding year of the American Library Association, to 1924, the effective year of the National Origins Act with its quotas for immigrants, U.S. public libraries of the Northeast, the West, and the Midwest were busy organizing to serve the needs of the flood of millions of immigrants from Southeastern and Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East.1 North Carolina did not receive any significant number of immigrants from this influx as they had earlier immigrants, including Germans, English, French, Irish, and Scots, from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. By 1880, these former immigrants were now established North Carolina citizens who had been assimilated, or Americanized, the term used at in the early twentieth century, and spoke English, albeit in differing and sometimes colorful accents and dialects.

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Section: North Carolina Foreign Language Center (Ncflc)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Library Adult Education for Immigrants in North Carolina

Jones

2015

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International developments: The North Carolina foreign language center: A public library service

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Public Library Adult Education for Immigrants in North Carolina

Public Library Adult Education for Immigrants in North Carolina

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