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This area of the site is home to WebJunction's growing Community of Practice around serving the needs of Spanish speakers! The SLO Community of Practice builds off WebJunction's successful national project to partner with 40 state libraries and deliver training to over 6,000 library staff around the country, helping them reach out to their Spanish-speaking communities. Get inspired, find resources, or discuss your own outreach efforts. Questions? SpanishOutreach@WebJunction.org

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Siga Adelante Poster

2008 Siga Adelante (Moving Forward) Workshop Templates

As part of WebJunction's Spanish Language Outreach Program the Oklahoma Department of Libraries (ODL) created a series of workshops for Spanish-speaking patrons. Templates for all the workshop topics (health, citizenship, family literacy, employment, finance, and community/culture) are now available on WebJunction.  For more information about Siga Adelante view the archive of the February 2007 webinar about the project.

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Check out the Críticas Blog Multicultural Links for current ideas and best practices around outreach to Spanish-speaking patrons.

 

 

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 Spanish Language Outreach Connects New York's Libraries with Communities
Final Report of a Statewide Partnership Project - July 2008
User Portrait
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 Spanish Language Resources
The Mid-Hudson Library System in Poughkeepsie, NY has devoted an entire issue of it's weekly MHLS Bulletin to Spanish Language Resources. The Bulletin will help member libraries reach out to Spanish-speaking communities and features web as well as statistics, print and audio resources.
User Portrait
Spanish Language Outreach Program in Hartford, March 2006
Notes from this meeting at the Connecticut State Library's Van Block facility in Hartford, Connecticut.
User Portrait
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 The Diversity Exchange
Librarians from Ocean County Library (NJ) demonstrate the knowledge-sharing tool they developed to support implementation of diversity programs in libraries.
User Portrait
OCL Diversity Cookbook: Building a Database of Diversity Programs
Profile of a database developed by a team of librarians at the Ocean County Library in New Jersey to be an open platform for hosting "how-to" descriptions of diversity programs in libraries from across the country.
User Portrait
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