This paper summaries the collection development, necessity, evaluation, design and provision of multicultural services,information searching behavior and librarian development of libraries at abroad. Then it puts forward the development direction and the focal point of research, which include developing multicultural service guidelines suited to China's condition, making the distinction between multicultural service objects, clearing multicultural service value concept and strengthening multicultural services in ethnic minority areas.
Wang Lanxia
. Research Review on Multicultural Services of Libraries at Abroad[J]. Library and Information Service, 2013
, 57(15)
: 142
-146,76
.
DOI: 10.7536/j.issn.0252-3116.2013.15.023
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