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2008-03-10T17:49:38Z

The St. Charles Community College library (Missouri) is a recipient of a Library Outreach for Spanish Speakers grant and wants to better serve its English as a Second Language community. We would like to know what practices and/or policies other libraries in community college libraries/public libraries have regarding borrower privileges and what constitutes valid documentation before privileges are granted.

1. Do you require a current picture I.D. prior to granting borrower privileges?
2. Should the picture I.D. show a current address?
3. Do you allow use other types of documentation to verify the residential address?
4. What do you do when the wife seeks privileges, but her last name is different (Lopez) from her husbands last name (Garcia) and all bills mailed to the home show only the husbands last name?

Thanks,
Stephanie Tolson

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Re: Spanish DVDs

2008-02-12T14:06:36Z

Hi Jean,

Thank you for the information! It was very helpful!

Kathy

Re: Spanish DVDs

2008-01-24T15:23:22Z

Hi, Kathy - some of the distributors we use are: NODA Audiovisual, Facets, Vanguard, B&T, Amazon. I especially like NODA for its classic Spanish-language film selection; you can request to receive their monthly bulletin of new titles. Also, Criticas had a nice article (3/15/06) on purchasing Spanish language dvds, which lists contact information for NODA and other suppliers. http://www.criticasmagazine.com/article/CA6316428.html

Jean

Spanish DVDs

2008-01-24T13:59:42Z

Hello!

Does anyone know of a good source for ordering movies in Spanish? The patrons at my library requested more DVDs in Spanish ( filmed entirely in Spanish).

Thanks for any suggestions!
Kathy

Chess... a game for everybody! / Ajedrez... ¡un juego para todos!

2008-01-09T16:36:05Z

From Union County Public Library, Monroe, NC: This past Monday the 7th, we celebrated a program called Chess... a game for everybody! / Ajedrez... ¡un juego para todos! For two hours, a group of 15 people from all ages and occupations enjoyed playing this classical multi-cultural game. It was very pleasant, among many sights, to watch a 10 years old English speaker speaking broken Spanish to a 70 yrs old man from Dominican Republic, and a Doctor playing against a construction worker. We even broadcasted the flyers in Russian, since we do have a growing Russian community close to one of our branches. By popular demand, on February 5th, we will be hosting Chess so we meet again. / Ajedrez el reencuentro.

We strongly recommend hosting this type of simple programs in your Library. You do not even have to worry about supplying the chessboards. Our flyers specified to all players to bring their own. They did.

Chess requires basic verbal communication skills. It creates a distended friendly environment where the Spanish-speaking patrons feel at ease and welcomed to the library. It could also promote interest in books related to the topic. In summary, it is a wonderful game that by nature transcends cultural barriers.

www.union.lib.nc.us/hispanic.htm

Re: Audio Resources for Librarians Learning Spanish

2007-12-26T23:20:41Z

I just came across this [url http://www.oculture.com/2006/10/foreign_languag.html] list from Open Culture[/url], which provides a list of self-paced audio resources for learning different languages. Languages covered are:

Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese

Emily

Additional Resources

2007-12-14T15:41:59Z

Greetings from ODL,

I just received information on a new resource that might be helpful for Spanish language patrons.

Free Resources

For ELL or Family Literacy Programs
Raising Children in a New Country: An Illustrated Handbook and the accompanying Toolkit for Working with Newcomer Parents designed for English language learning (ELL) can be downloaded free from Bridging Refugee Youth and Childrens Services (BYRCS). The new handbook, using basic English texts and communicative illustrations, helps teach American norms and requirements for parental involvement in childrens schools, meals and nutrition, street and car safety, disciplinary techniques, and other activities. The toolkit is designed for teachers, caseworkers and counselors helping refugee families learn English and adapt to American culture. It includes a wealth of Web links to additional resources. BYRCS is a joint project of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCC and is supported by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Stay warm,

Leslie Gelders

Literacy Coordinator

Oklahoma Department of Libraries

Ways to Learn Spanish

2007-12-07T18:53:38Z

I keep stumbling on different resources online to learn Spanish as I become immersed in my Spanish Language Outreach workshops. Today, through my daily email from Spanish Word a Day (http://spanish-word-a-day.com/) I learned about "The Twisted Doors". See their site here: http://www.thetwisteddoors.com/ Their website states "A bilingual foreign language learning adventure that will be... The Scariest Way in the World to Learn French or Spanish!

LES PORTES TORDUES and LAS PUERTAS RETORCIDAS
are 46-chapter French-English or Spanish-English illustrated mystery adventures that uniquely integrate vocabulary, grammar, and expressions. For beginning to intermediate students ages 12 and up and adult self-learners. Easy-to-follow and riveting read-along audio CD. Exact line-by-line translation."

I sure wish one of our libraries had this so I could check it out. When I saw their sample chapter here: http://www.thetwisteddoors.com/spanishchapter.htm I knew I would love to use this. I am somewhat bilingual, but very rusty, and this would be a great way to get better!

I think this would be a great resource for any library!

Stephanie Zimmerman (PA)

Learn Spanish in a Web2.0 world with SpanishSense

2007-07-20T20:31:46Z

SpanishSense is an amazing site where you can learn Spanish! It's set up in a Web 2.0 environment where you can subscribe to a podcast feed and converse with others learning along with you. You can be a Newbie, Elementary, Intermediate, etc. I'm brushing up on my rusty knowledge!

http://spanishsense.com

Re: Content organization

2007-07-18T23:07:15Z

Those of you who attended the SLO workshop follow-up session at ALA will remember that we asked you to rank which resources would most be helpful for you to do outreach and develop services for Spanish speakers.

The top ten types of information you found useful were:
- ESL
- Collection Development
- Literacy
- Diversity Training
- Research & Data on Spanish Speakers and Libraries
- Staff Training & Recruitment
- Spanish for Library Staff
- Library Signage
- Library Programming for Spanish Speakers
- Marketing to Spanish Speakers
- Translation Resources

Advice you gave us:
- Research and Data is useful for grant writing process
- Advice for getting your library director involved would be useful
- Advice for dealing with challenges from the community (resistance to providing Spanish language services) would be useful

We are keeping all the feedback you all have given us in mind as we move forward. If any of you have content to share in any of these categories, please let the community know.
Thanks for letting us know what you think!

Blogs

2007-06-18T20:49:21Z

Do any of you know of a great blog on Latino librarianship issus, or a blog written by a librarian in Latin America? We're compiling a [url http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=17047]list[/url] and want to know what *you* are reading - in a very non-big brother kind of way ;).

If you write a blog, or know of one that should be on this list, please post it here.

Thanks,
Emily

Re: Content organization

2007-06-15T19:36:40Z

We wanted to thank everyone who gave us input on how the Services for Spanish Speakers resources are organized. We've finished re-organizing and expanding our resources and hope that you will find more resources to support and enlighten your outreach work. I've attached a site map to give you an introduction to the new organization. There are a lot of areas ready for expansion so please keep those contributions coming!

Re: Content organization

2007-06-05T16:46:09Z

Hello,
I want to let everyone know that resources in the Spanish area of WebJunction will be shifting around in the next few days as we re-organize the site. Please be patient with us as we hope to bring you a new and expanded collection of resources!

Thanks,
Emily

Re: Content organization

2007-04-09T22:37:35Z

We've also added a new way for you to give us your feedback on the organization of the SLO area of the website.

The following link will take you to an online card sort activity which will help us design a better resources area on WebJunction. Put on your taxonomy hats and help us come up with some great organization!

You can access this study with the following URL:
http://websort.net/go/SLO

There are directions on how to conduct the activity once you are inside, but I wanted to emphasize a few points that may not be clear.

* The list of resources that I am asking you to sort may have titles that are not necessarily clear. If you let your mouse hover over the title of the resource, a description will appear.

* Be creative! The purpose of this is for me to see one, how people group certain resources together, and two, what name they give to those groups. So when you are putting resources into folders, you can call them whatever you think is meaningful. Please don't feel bound by what is already on the WebJunction website.

* There is an option to Add Comments in the top right corner. Please put here any feedback you would like to give about the organization of the SLO area of the website, focusing particularly on the resources

* The resources listed here are only samples of what will be on the site. It is possible that there are types of resources that we will feature that are not included on this list. If you want to let us know that a certain type or category of resource should be available on the website, please use the Add Comments feature in the top right corner.

Thanks!

Content organization

2007-03-13T20:39:05Z

Hi everyone,
At WebJunction, we are trying to gather all the great resources you share into our resource pages, organizing them in a way that makes sense to you. However, as participation on the SLO boards grows, we've seen that we need to do a bit of re-arranging. I've started a page on WJ's external wiki ([url http://wiki.webjunctionworks.org/index.php/Ideas_for_SLO_Content_Organization ]Ideas for SLO Content Organization[/url]) to share ideas about how you would like to see the SLO resources organized. Due to excessive spamming, we've now required folks to create an account with the wiki, but it's a painless process (we hope ). I encourage any of you who have any ideas on this to go there and share with me how you would like to be able to find resources in the Spanish Language Outreach space of WebJunction. Thanks!

Emily

Re: Audio Resources for Librarians Learning Spanish

2007-02-08T23:57:01Z

And for those of us who like to learn from an actual person, there's a great resource <a href="http://speakshop.com/">Speak Shop</a>. You can learn Spanish online via webcam from a Spanish teachers at Probigua in Guatemala. The other great thing about this project is a portion of the lesson fees go to <a href="http://probigua.org/">Probigua</a> who build and maintain libraries in rural Guatemala. Another bonus - since these teachers work in a library project, they are probably familiar with library terminology in Spanish.

Re: Audio Resources for Librarians Learning Spanish

2007-01-23T22:29:08Z

Hi all,

Here is another resource for library staff interested in learning spanish. [url http://www.learnspanishtoday.com] www.learnspanishtoday.com[/url]

Even though this site is a vendor, you can still access quite a bit of content for free!

Laura

Re: Audio Resources for Librarians Learning Spanish

2006-11-04T00:09:27Z

I am not aware of a online course that teaches Basic Spanish tailored to Librarians. However, one great resource in Infopeople's Survival Spanish for Library Staff. You can download the course guide and all the audio tracks from the class on WebJunction at: http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=14365

Here are a couple other online tutorials:
Dictionary of Spanish and English: http://www.spanishdict.com
Spanish-Kit : Spanish Learning Tools: http://www.spanish-kit.net

There are also some helpful links and guides on our Spanish for Library Staff page at: http://www.webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=10564

If you DO find an online course teaching Basic Spanish for Librarians, please let us all know!
Laura

Re: Audio Resources for Librarians Learning Spanish

2006-11-02T21:42:49Z

Where can I find an online course teaching Basic Spanish for librarians?

Re: Audio Resources for Librarians Learning Spanish

2006-10-26T19:36:11Z

Be sure to check out this great new resource on WJ! In our <a href="/do/Navigation?category=10564">Spanish for Library Staff</a> area, we are pleased to provide access to the text and audio for <a href="/do/DisplayContent?id=14365">Infopeople's Survival Spanish for Librarians</a>!! Thank you <a href="http://infopeople.org/">Infopeople</a>!