Expanding Latino Outreach

About This Grant

The Latino population in Cornelius has exceeded 50% and demand for library services is increasing far more quickly than staff resources. The Cornelius Library will develop a program to extend its successful Latino Outreach program using library school students. The project will offer a paid internship to a bilingual graduate student to work with the Cornelius Library Latino Outreach Coordinator to provide information, storytimes and special programs in the community. The program will expand the reach of Spanish language library services to more of the community by creating a simple, sustainable program to have paid interns offer basic library services to more agencies and people.