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Serving Spanish-Language Patrons—A Q&A with Rose Treviño by Adriana Domínguez, 10/15/2008
Rose Treviño is the Youth Services Coordinator for the Houston Public Library, one of the largest library systems in the country that serves one of the biggest Spanish-speaking populations in the country. She is an active member of the American Library Association (ALA), the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), the Texas Library Association (TLA), the Public Library Association (PLA), and REFORMA. More
Study of Latinos and Libraries Suggests Ways To Draw More Users
by Norman Oder, Library Journal - 09/15/2008
More Latinos than previously assumed use public libraries in the United States, according to a new study, Latinos and Public Library Perceptions, sponsored by WebJunction in partnership with 40 state libraries and conducted by the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI). It also recommends how to draw more Latinos to libraries.
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Immigrant Nation—How Librarians Select Materials for Non-English Speakers
by Aída Bardales - 09/01/2008
In its September 1 issue, Library Journal takes a closer look at how public libraries are selecting materials to better serve non-English-speaking patrons in LJ book review editor Barbara Hoffert’s “Immigrant Nation.”
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REFORMA National Conference III Preview
by Jessica Bermúdez - 09/01/2008
The REFORMA’s (The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking) third National Conference will be held September 18–21, in El Paso, Texas. With this year’s theme, Bridging the Gaps: Juntos @ the Border.
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Spanish-Speaking Iguana Turns Three
by Ximena Diego - 06/15/2008
Whereas many children in Latin America have a number of magazines catering to them, Spanish-speaking children here have only one: Iguana.Fortunately, it’s a remarkable one. More
Planeta to Close U.S. Office
by Judith Rosen - 03/15/2008
With more U.S. publishers taking advantage of the boom in Latino publishing, Spanish and Latin American publishers are finding it harder to compete. Close on the heels of Penguin’s announcement that it is launching Celebra, a line of Latino-interest books in English and Spanish, Planeta, the world’s largest publisher of trade books in Spanish, said that it would close its 15-year-old sales and distribution office in Miami at the end of March.
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Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University January 28, 2009 Thanks for eight wonderful years
In early 2001 some of us were thrilled to hear of the launch of a major new magazine ... More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University January 25, 2009 Wisconsin asks, "Is Spanish the new German?"
An article about some brilliant-sounding library discussions up in Fond du Lac, "...; More
Multicultural Link Loida García-Febo, Assist. Coordinator, New Americans Program and Special Services/ Queens Library January 23, 2009 NEW: Internet literacy program
Generations on Line (GoL) is an internet literacy program developed for people who ar... More
Multicultural Link Loida García-Febo, Assist. Coordinator, New Americans Program and Special Services/ Queens Library January 22, 2009 NIH Medline Plus SALUD magazine
Medline Plus has launched a new magazine in Spanish. Well, it is a bilingual publicat... More
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez—No Small Feat
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, the Cuban novelist who won this year’s Premio Alfaguara de Novela, has been traveling nonstop. His book tour brought him to New York City this past May, where he met with reporters eager to interview him on his latest accomplishment.
A place of refuge
In this issue’s cover story, Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Díaz recounts how the library helped him discover a world he wouldn’t have known otherwise and how for him, as an immigrant child, the library was a place—and a concept—he never could have imagined. Some Hispanics, like Díaz, who was newly arrived from the Dominican Republic, will dig right in and...
Serving Spanish Speakers
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