September 11, 2015

Hopefully, you were lucky enough to participate in JCPLA's Staff Day on Friday, August 28th.  There were so many great presentations!  I presented a slideshow entitled, "Bienvenitos, Bonjour, Willkomen...Attracting Foreign Language Speakers to your Library."  I'm hoping it will give you some ideas for bringing in more patrons to your library.  Enjoy the slideshow loaded onto Dropbox.  I hope with all our ideas put together, we can reach more foreign language patrons.  At the end, there is a new Spanish-language YouTube instructional video on such things as signing up for a library card and basic services, rules and regulations.  Feel free to recommend it.  Some of the rules are Hoover-specific, but you can get an idea of what we can do for our patrons.  

If you have any suggestions, corrections, additions to either the presentation or the video, please post.

Also, everyone is invited to the Adult Services Roundtable discussion taking place on Thursday, September 17th at 10 am at the Hoover Library's Theatre Level Meeting Rooms.  We will be discussing Sierra's Decision Center module with guest Elizabeth Swift with the cooperative.  Thank you!