id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16765 Albarillo, Frans Information Code-Switching: A Study of Language Preferences in Academic Libraries 2018-07-02 21 .pdf application/pdf 11109 518 51 Carol Myers-Scotton, a linguist writing in the 1990s about research in code-switching, summarizes Gumperz’s characterization of CS as the use of language codes as a type of “social strategy” As the CS data suggest, our libraries are not monolingual spaces, so making sure that printers can print in different scripts (and in general having technology capable of supporting users’ linguistic preferences), as well as having welcome signage in other languages are steps that libraries can take to make non-English speakers feel more included when using the library as a space for studying or meeting with classmates. cache/crl-16765.pdf txt/crl-16765.txt