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Asian center donates 6,000 items to library, including videos, magazines
Bailey Mannisto-Iches
Issue date: 2/21/07 Section: News
The Refugee's Educators Network of Rancho Cordova has donated more than 6,000 items including books, journals, film and other memorabilia, said Kathryn Blackmer Reyes, ethnic studies and multicultural librarian.
"This gift contains a variety of things: books, journals, specialized-topical magazines," Reyes said. "There are teaching manuals, tapes and videos. We have all kinds of things."
The collection also includes aged clothing. "It's a very interesting collection . . . my hope is that students who do research on these certain ethnic groups can find the best and most information," Reyes said.
The collection was compiled over a 20-year period by the Southeast Asia Community Resource Center in Rancho Cordova. The center was a project of REN and was initiated as a resource for educators of Southeast Asian students and community members in the greater Sacramento region.
Tamara Trujillo, acting library director, said she was very pleased about the new collection. "Acquiring this gift has allowed the library to offer a depth of resources for study and research to students and faculty that would otherwise not have been possible."
Timothy Fong, director of Asian American studies said it is significant. "It helps trace the history and experiences of recent refugees from all over the world - mostly Asia and Eastern Europe - who have settled in Sacramento," he said.
More than 700 titles of various books and manuals have been catalogued and are ready for checkout in the library. "The collection is looking at being finished at the end of the semester," Reyes said.
Bailey Mannisto-Iches can be reached at news@statehornet.com
"This gift contains a variety of things: books, journals, specialized-topical magazines," Reyes said. "There are teaching manuals, tapes and videos. We have all kinds of things."
The collection also includes aged clothing. "It's a very interesting collection . . . my hope is that students who do research on these certain ethnic groups can find the best and most information," Reyes said.
The collection was compiled over a 20-year period by the Southeast Asia Community Resource Center in Rancho Cordova. The center was a project of REN and was initiated as a resource for educators of Southeast Asian students and community members in the greater Sacramento region.
Tamara Trujillo, acting library director, said she was very pleased about the new collection. "Acquiring this gift has allowed the library to offer a depth of resources for study and research to students and faculty that would otherwise not have been possible."
Timothy Fong, director of Asian American studies said it is significant. "It helps trace the history and experiences of recent refugees from all over the world - mostly Asia and Eastern Europe - who have settled in Sacramento," he said.
More than 700 titles of various books and manuals have been catalogued and are ready for checkout in the library. "The collection is looking at being finished at the end of the semester," Reyes said.
Bailey Mannisto-Iches can be reached at news@statehornet.com
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