MIURA Taro    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Arts and Letters    Position   Professor
Date	2017/08/21
Presentation Theme	Multilingual services in Japanese public libraries
Conference	WLIC: the 83rd IFLA General Congress, Wroclaw, Poland
Promoters	International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions: IFLA
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Poster
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Venue	Wroclaw, Poland
Publisher and common publisher	MIURA Taro; SUGIMOTO Yuka
Details	Foreign residents in Japan are 2.3 million, which is 0.8 million increase for 20 years. Multilingual public services began especially for Korean residents in some local governments such as Osaka and Kanagawa in 1970s. In 1980-90s, "newcomers" increased as national policy for foreign workers and international students changed. Since 2000s, national policy has stressed on "multicultural coexistence", recognizing foreign residents not as "visitors" but as "community people". In public libraries, multilingual collection - newspaper, magazines, children's books, practical books, dictionaries, etc. - are widely spread. 70% of public libraries have multilingual collection, though 10% have space for multicultural service corner.