Ease of Navigability in Two Public Libraries' Spanish Catalogs

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Carter, Meghan A.
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • The Hispanic population has been growing at a high rate in the past two decades, culminating in 2007 as the largest minority group in the United States (Bernstein, 2008). However, the growth in population has not been isolated to just one particular region, but to new regions that had previously low numbers of Hispanics. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina experienced a septuplet growth rate in Hispanic population between 1990 and 2000, which led them to evaluate their user population, finding that they needed to provide a Spanish catalog. Since public libraries' goal is information dissemination, this study evaluates and compares how easy it is to navigate Charlotte-Mecklenburg's Spanish to a county similar in size-San Francisco County, California-in which a large Hispanic population has existed for a longer period of time. The study found that although both indicated a high level of navigability, some features were not available to Hispanic patrons.
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  • Rathbun-Grubb, Susan
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 142 p.
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  • December 10, 2010

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