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Pathways to Progress
Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship
Pathways to Progress
Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship
Description
Supplying contributions from Latino librarian practitioners across the nation, this anthology provides broad coverage of the subject of Latino/Spanish speaking library service in the United States.
Emphasizing public, school, and academic libraries, Pathways to Progress: Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship taps the leading minds of the Latino library world to provide expert discourse on a wide spectrum of library services to Latino patrons in the United States. This collection of articles provides an accurate, insightful discussion of the issues and advances in Latino library service.
Coverage of library service to the Latino community includes subjects such as special collections, recruitment and mentoring, leadership, collection development, reference services to gays and lesbians, children services, and special library populations. Contributors include library practitioners who are of Mexican, Chilean, Peruvian, Nicaraguan, Puerto Rican, and Cuban descent. Best practices are presented and explained in-depth with practical examples and documented citations.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Common Denominators in the Development of Latino Library Leadership
Sergio Chaparro, PhD
Chapter 2 Collection Development: An Overview for the Spanish Speaking
Sara Martínez
Chapter 3 Public Library Services and Latino Children: Getting it Right in the 21st Century
Oralia Garza de Cortés
Chapter 4 Academic Libraries: Pathways to Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Relationships in Chicano and Latino Studies
Susan C. Luévano, Tiffini A. Travis, and Eileen Wakiji
Chapter 5 special libraries and collections: "invisible as night, implacable as wind" california ethnic and multicultural archives (cema): the first 20 years
Erica Bennett
Chapter 6 Special Collections: The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries
María R. Estorino
Chapter 7 Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Lesbian, Queer: Being There: Queer Latin@ Representation in the Library
tatiana de la tierra
Chapter 8 Recruiting and Mentoring: Proactive Mentoring: Attracting Hispanic American Students into Information Studies
Alma C. Ortega and Marisol Ramos
Chapter 9 Leadership in Libraries: Latino Leadership in Libraries
Luis Herrera
Chapter 10 Digital Resources: Developing Chicano/a Latino/a Digital Resources
Alexander Hauschild
Chapter 11 Conference Presentations
Historical Perspectives on the Recruitment of Latinos to Library Service: The Committee to Recruit Mexican American Librarians—A Legacy for Latino Librarianship
John L. Ayala
An Archival Call to Action Salvador Güereña
Preservation of LGBT History: The ONE Archive
Yolanda Retter Vargas
Rearticulating the Digital Divide for the Latino Community
Romelia Salinas
Chapter 12 the role of the library associations
SALALM, the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials: The Evolution of an Area Studies Librarianship Organization Ana María Cobos and Philip S. McCleod
ALA, IFLA, and Their Relationship with Latin America
Loida Garcia-Febo
REFORMA: A Historical Overview Refugio Ramirez
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Product details
| Published | 18 Nov 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781610691178 |
| Imprint | Libraries Unlimited |
| Series | Latinos and Libraries Series |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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