2023 Spring DLC: “Speaking My Language"- Providing Government Information Services in Multiple Languages

  • Duration: 61 minutes
  • Date Recorded: May 01, 2023

Speakers

  • Alex Estabrook, Reference Librarian, Nashua Public Library (New Hampshire)
  • Jane Canfield, Coordinator of Federal Documents, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
  • Deborah Yun Caldwell, Data Services Librarian, University of North Texas Libraries
  • Kapena Shim; Librarian, Hawaiian Collection; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library

Description

This program of the Unique Challenges, Underserved Populations, and Federal Depository Libraries Working Group (UCUP) focuses on the challenges depository libraries may face when they do not have adequate Government resources in the native languages of their community of users. We reached out to those depository coordinators who responded to our survey that they provide some kind of language services, other than English, for their patrons. Our panelists represent a range of depository libraries within the public sphere who will discuss these challenges and their creative solutions. 

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