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In the ILF Exhibit Hall, there are poster presentations of topics in librarianship. This one caught my eye. I have a BA in Spanish and I work in a school with a Latino population of about 25%. While our collection has some books by Latino authors like Pam Muñoz Ryan and Francisco Jiménez, for instance, as well as some popular English titles and non-fiction resources translated into Spanish, our collection needs some more Latino influence.
I did some research on the strength of our Latino culture, fiction, and Spanish language collection:
The current collection consists of 97 items with an average age of 17 years old. The breakdown of formats is about 90% books to 10% movies. Within the books, about 60 percent of the resources are non-fiction, while the movies are 100% non-fiction. Its weaknesses lie in the age of the books about countries and cultures and the lack of sufficient novels with Latino characters. The biggest weakness is the number of resources in comparison to the size of the overall collection, which is about 18,000 books. With a 25% Latino population, there should be more resources that speak to their culture and heritage. However, our collection does contain a variety of Latino folktales and resources on individual countries that are current enough and in good condition.
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