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Spanish Language Outreach Update
August 2007

ALA Conference in Review
The SLO program was involved in several different events at ALA Annual Conference including a workshop follow-up session and the REFORMA Piñata de Recursos. The follow-up session was well-attended despite competing with other exciting REFORMA events. Yolanda Cuesta spoke about marketing to the ethnic media, and participants shared great stories and ideas on outreach from their libraries. If you weren't there, you can still listen to the audio of the session and see pictures from the REFORMA fundraiser (http://www.flickr.com/photos/webjunction/sets/72157600886593844/) and the SLO Follow-Up session (http://www.flickr.com/photos/webjunction/sets/72157600887346893/). This summer we will be digitizing the library marketing resources in Spanish shared during the Piñata de Recursos, so bookmark this page!

August Webinar - Finding and Evaluating Online Health Information for Spanish Speakers

Join Gail Kouame of the <a href="http://nnlm.gov/">National Network of Libraries of Medicine</a> as she explains how to find and evaluate online health resources for Spanish speakers, even if you only speak English.  She will cover basic vocabulary, how to evaluate resources, and point people to where they can find more resources on the National Network of Libraries of Medicine website.

¡Salud se puede! Trejo Foster Foundation Institute

The SLO program helped sponsor this year's Trejo Foster Foundation Institute (http://sir.arizona.edu/trejo/), which focused on Hispanic health information and issues.  Public librarians and library staff, public health officials, clinicians, a Pima County Supervisor, promotoras, community advocates, bilingual community members, and librarians from the National Library of Medicine shared ideas and resources to take back to their work supporting healthy Latino communities.  We learned about new resources to add our ever-growing collection of health resources (http://webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=15334) for Spanish speakers, which also include resources from Oklahoma's Siga Adelante program (http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=17092).  You can read more about the conference at BlogJunction (http://blog.webjunctionworks.org/?p=419). 

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