research paper on serving diverse communities
For this assignment, you will be required to prepare a research paper on serving diverse communities. It should be approximately 5-6 pages in length, 1.5 line spacing and 12 point Times New Roman font, with proper APA citations.
The content of your paper should include:
- Define your community and identify the challenges faced by that community in fully participating in society to the extent they wish
- Identify information resources that may already be available
- Describe possible ways the library can help meet those challenges[unique_solution]
- Draw in actual case studies from libraries, statistics, reports, interviews – primary information.
- You should also draw in appropriate scholarly articles.
- Come up with ideas, a plan, solutions
Here are some possible community groups to research and write about. There are others, of course – but it you would like to write on a group not listed, please check with your instructor first.
TOPIC: Recent newcomers to Canada
Grading will be based upon:
- The completeness of your research, including your efforts to locate scholarly articles and studies.
- Format – proper spelling, grammar, punctuation and citation.
- Presentation – logical presentation of your ideas, following a proper essay style format. Introduction with a thesis, argument/presentation of information and a conclusion.
- Did you identify the realistic, prevalent issues facing these communities (in terms of accessing information)?
- Did you try to determine what has been done to facilitate information access for these groups in the past?
- Have you come up with some ideas for future action?