Pathways to Progress: Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship (Latinos and Libraries Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591586445 ISBN 13: 9781591586449

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591586445
• ISBN 13: 9781591586449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Ayala John L., Guerena Salvador