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Grossman, S., Agosto, D. E., Winston, M., Epstein, R. N. E., Cannuscio, C. C., Martinez-Donate, A., & Klassen, A. C. (2022). How public libraries help immigrants adjust to life in a new country: a review of the literature. Health Promotion Practice, 23(5), 804-816.

Ndumu, A., Villagran, M. A., Sandoval-Sall, V., Grunberg, K., Tadena, L., Santillan, R., & Bromir, N. Y. (2023). Integrating Immigrants into the US LIS Profession: Findings from a Pilot Collaborative Project.

Branyon A. P. (2017). “A home for me when I am so far from home”: Perceptions of libraries by immigrant mothers in language acquisition and cultural acclimation. Public Library Quarterly, 36(3), 185–198.

Johnston J., Audunson R. (2019). Supporting immigrants’ political integration through discussion and debate in public libraries. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(1), 228–242.

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