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Ethnic & International Studies

Black Heritage Reference Center

The Black Heritage Reference Center (located as a part of Langston Hughes Community and Cultural Center) serves Queens County with a comprehensive reference and circulating collection, totalling over 40,000 volumes of materials "written by, about, for, with and related to Black Culture." Emphasis is given to those geographical areas where Afro-Americans have lived in significant numbers: West Africa, South America, the Caribbean, Canada and the United States.

Carter G. Woodson Collection

Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) was an educator and philosopher, mentor to African-American scholars, and founder of the African-American Historical Association. He believed that it is necessary for a race to have a history or it will be made insignificant, and that the study of African-American history would make a better society. This special collection is located at Queens Library's Central Library Social Sciences Division.

International Resource Center

The International Resource Center (IRC) is a citywide resource located on the third (3rd) level of the Flushing Library. It houses books, newspapers, magazines, videos, CDs, and online and CD-ROM databases in English and international languages. It is a unique concentration of resources for global studies and international commerce, rivaling any that is available, free, to the public, anywhere.

Publications - Demographics

Queens Library's New Americans Program has published several free studies using demographic information about Queens Borough that was compiled from previous (1990) and current (2000) U.S. Census. Find statistics about languages spoken at home, ability to speak English, ethnic and racial identification, socio-economic characteristics, and much more.

Literature & Language Division

The Literature & Languages Division, located at the Central Library, offers customers a number of specialized collections of African-American, African, and Caribbean literature.

WorldLinQ™

WorldLinQ™ is an innovative information system that was created to provide online multilingual information resources to Queens Library’s customers, as well as the Internet community at large. Find websites that cover a number of subject areas in different languages. Available subjects are arts & humanities, business & economy, education, employment, entertainment & popular culture, general reference, government, health & medicine, history & biography, newspapers & magazines, science & technology, social sciences, and sports & leisure. These languages currently include Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, French, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. Many of the sites selected are bilingual (e.g., English and the native language), while others are displayed only in the vernacular (or the native character set) script. Note: To view vernacular script, you will require the appropriate font.