From The Daily Herald (Suburban Chicago Newspaper):
Suburban libraries must diversify their resources, programming and staffing to better serve growing populations of blacks, Latinos and immigrants, says the first black woman to lead the American Library Association.
Tracie Hall, whose appointment as executive director of the nation’s oldest and largest library association takes effect Feb. 24, notes that libraries have to adapt to changes reflected in the “suburbanization of people of color.”
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Suburban libraries must diversify their resources, programming and staffing to better serve growing populations of blacks, Latinos and immigrants, says the first black woman to lead the American Library Association.
Tracie Hall, whose appointment as executive director of the nation’s oldest and largest library association takes effect Feb. 24, notes that libraries have to adapt to changes reflected in the “suburbanization of people of color.”
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