Improving Library Services to Canby's Spanish Speaking Community

About This Grant

As a key component of the library's comprehensive efforts to increase use of the library by members of the Canby area's Latino community, this grant would provide the Canby Public Library with a one year, fulltime Spanish bilingual librarian. The work of the project librarian will be focused in six different areas: 1) research and information gathering; 2) relationship building with community partners; 3) collection development; 4) marketing; 5) creation and implementation of library programming; and 6) mentoring and training of permanent library staff, so that the work undertaken is sustainable after the grant period has ended.