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Libros for Oregon: Collections Connect Communities

Libros for Oregon Website including  How to Apply, chairs and committee members, and the contact page.
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Project Goal: Spanish-speaking Oregonians state-wide will have access to high quality, culturally relevant collections at libraries participating in Libros for Oregon.
 
Project abstract: In order to improve library services to Oregon’s Hispanic communities, especially those in rural areas, Libros for Oregon will:
  •  send representatives to the Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) in Guadalajara to purchase high quality Spanish-language books for participating libraries, with an emphasis on small, rural Oregon libraries (the FIL is the largest Spanish-language book fair in the world and the best source of culturally-appropriate books written in Spanish, which are difficult and sometimes impossible to procure via usual means in the US);
  • help libraries to develop and implement outreach plans for working with their Hispanic communities (OLA’s Outreach and Reforma Round Tables will assist with outreach training, including archive-able webinars, and will help participating libraries develop outreach strategies that can be implemented by Spanish- and non-Spanish-speaking staff);
  • and create a “Best of FIL” booklist (annotated to show US availability) for all Oregon libraries to use in collection development.

More Information

Handout - Libros for Oregon Project
File Size: 26 kb
File Type: docx
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LSTA Grant Application - Libros for Oregon Project
File Size: 644 kb
File Type: pdf
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2016-17 Final Report - Libros for Oregon
File Size: 234 kb
File Type: pdf
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 Articles & Presentations

“Crossing the Border for Hard-to-Find Books,” about LfO founder Deborah Gitlitz’s FIL trips, published in her local library’s newspaper, the Wilsonville Spokesman.

"Libros for Oregon: Collections Connect Communities A New LSTA Grant to Help More Oregon Libraries Take Advantage of the Guadalajara Book Fair," published in the OLA Quarterly, Volume 24, Number 2 (2018).

Presentation slides from an OLA Conference 2018 session The Guadalajara Book Fair and Your Library: The Launch of Libros for Oregon”; the slides are available via NW Central and the OLA conference website.
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