Concurrent Program Session

Beyond Bilingual Storytime and ESL: Digging Deeper into Your Spanish Speaking Community

Thursday, April 7, 2016, 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Colorado Convention Center, Room 707/709/711

Do you want to move beyond the basic Bilingual Storytime and ESL program to serve your Spanish speaking community? This session will assist you with identifying an underserved segment of the community and developing an outreach plan. Speakers will give unique examples of outreach to underserved Spanish speaking communities and solicit audience participation. You will leave this session with an outreach toolkit and network of like-minded public librarians.

At the end of this session, participants will:

1: Identify an underserved Spanish speaking segment of your community for an outreach focus.
2: Gain outreach ideas from other librarians that you can implement in your library.
3: Develop an outreach plan to reach an underserved Spanish speaking group in your community.

The session organizer(s) identified this session as appropriate for:
Level 2: People with some knowledge, who want to increase their understanding.

This session will have: High interaction: facilitated discussion; small group discussion; hands-on activity

Handouts: Download 1   Download 2  

Track: Plan

Tags: Marketing/Advocacy, Collaboration, Diversity, International Issues, Outreach Services, Transforming Libraries


Presenters

Adriana (Ady) Huertas, Manager, Pauline Foster Teen Center
San Diego Public Library, San Diego, CA

Adriana is the Co-Chair of the Seguimos Creando Enlaces Committee, which has put on four bi-national conferences. She has been involved with the local chapter of Reforma for 9 years, and has held leadership positions including President in 2013. She is currently the International Relations Committee Chair for Reforma National. Ms. Huertas is a Spectrum Scholar and grant recipient, Eureka fellow, and has received a Reforma scholarship and the Public Library Staff Education Program Award.

Zoe Jarocki, Undergraduate Success Librarian
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Simone Groene-Nieto, Librarian
Denver Public Library, DENVER, CO

Simone is the coordinator of Spanish technology classes at Denver Public Library's Community Technology Center, helping to create, teach and promote the classes to Denver's Spanish speakers. Simone is also active in REFORMA's Colorado chapter, where she has served as vice president and president. She played a lead role in developing REFORMA Colorado's annual mini-conference, a learning event on ways that library workers can grow and strengthen their services to Latinos and Spanish speakers.

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Cancellation Policy

Written cancellations, requests for refunds, and/or changes will be accepted until February 26, 2016, and are subject to a $30 handling fee. Refunds will be processed after April 25, 2016. According to PLA policy, all meal events require preregistration. The above cancellation/change information also applies to all preconferences, meal events, and tours.

The PLA 2016 Conference is offered on a cost-recovery basis. PLA reserves the right to cancel all or any part of this event if there is insufficient registration or for other reasons. Neither ALA nor PLA is responsible for cancellation charges assessed by the airlines or travel agencies, or other losses incurred due to the cancellation of the workshops. All information listed on this website is subject to change.


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PLA Office

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Registration & Housing

Onsite registration hours are Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 AM–5:00 PM; Wednesday, April 6, 7:30 AM–6:30 PM; Thursday, April 7, 7:30 AM–5:30 PM; Friday, April 8, 7:30 AM–4:00 PM; and Saturday, April 9, 8:00–10:00 AM. Conference registration and housing is managed by Experient. Call or e-mail your questions, 800-424-5249 (U.S. and Canada), 847-996-5829 (all other countries), or pla@experient-inc.com. Experient representatives are available Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM Eastern. PLA Conference is a professional event. It is not open to the public.

Sponsorships

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Venues

Most conference events—including all preconferences and concurrent program sessions—will take place in the Colorado Convention Center (CCC), 700 14th Street, Denver, CO 80202. Additional events will be held at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, 650 15th Street, Denver, CO 80202, and other venues as indicated.

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