Pathways to Progress (eBook, PDF)

Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship
Redaktion: Ayala, John L.; Güereña, Salvador

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610691178
• Artikelnr.: 37938935

Autorenporträt

John L. Ayala is emeritus dean of library and learning resources, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA. Salvador Güereña is director of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives of the Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword 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