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2008
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- Immigrant Nation Hoffert, Barbara Public Libraries Immigrants Minority Groups Population Trends English (Second Language) Library Role Reading Material Selection Reading Materials Spanish Second Languages In an August 14, 2008 story, the New York Times reported that ethnic and racial minorities will likely be a majority of the U.S. population by 2042. Many of the blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and others constituting this emerging majority will be immigrants or the children of immigrants; the number of foreigners hitting these shores is projected to rise to two million annually by mid-century, up from 1.3 million today. Currently, the foreign born make up about 12 percent of the population, but the guess is that by 2025 they will make up 15 percent, surpassing a high-water mark set in 1910. And they won't all be speaking English, at least not right away. Librarians know that they need to stock up on world-language materials today. This article describes how public libraries select materials for a growing population whose first language is not English. According to Library Journal's (LJ's) 2008 book-buying survey of public libraries, fully 50 percent of respondents serving populations of 10,000 or more and almost all respondents serving populations of 100,000 or more have world-language collections. On average, these libraries add 600 world-language titles to their collections annually, with the largest libraries adding over 6500 titles on average.