International Services Leadership at HPL - Exciting Updates

From Liz Sargent, 3/7:

I am excited to update everybody on the growth of International Services Leadership at HPL, including the formation of the International Services Advisory Team and the International Services Corps, and the opening of 2 upcoming leadership positions.

The International Services Advisory Team has been established with our first 7 Advisory Team members, who will serve a 2-year term as a lead team to develop and innovate the scope of International Services provided by HPL. This team represents a powerful combination of expertise and experience, from Youth Services to Collection Development to partnership and team management. Please join me in congratulating our International Services Advisory Team!

Ana Frade	Jungman Neighborhood Library
Analisa Falcon	Vinson Neighborhood Library
Caitlin Campbell	Robinson-Westchase Neighborhood Library
Marcia Cameron-Denton	Henington-Alief Regional Library
Mikaela Selley	HMRC - Hispanic Collections and Oral History Archives
Pedro Fonseca	North and Northeast Regions
Teresa Lopez	Park Place Regional Library

Also thanks are in order for everyone who are offering to volunteer their creativity and time to the International Services Corps: combined with our Citizenship and English instructors, we now have an International Services Team of over 70 uniquely talented HPL staff that will be multiplying HPL’s impact to Houston’s international communities!

Finally, I am proud to announce the opening of two Library Service Supervisor positions that will be posted for International Services in the coming weeks:

• Library Service Supervisor – International Services Engagement and Outreach CoordinatorThis position will take a leading role in engaging Houston’s international communities through coordination of programs, partnerships, and services for immigrants and refugees, including the newly launched ‘The Living Room @HPL’ series. The position requires a bachelor’s degree and four years of experience in library, information services, or education.
• Library Service Supervisor – International Services Education CoordinatorThis position will lead the development and coordination of education services for international communities, immigrants and refugees, such as Citizenship, English and Language Learning classes. The position requires a bachelor’s degree and four years of experience in library, information services, or education, with a preference for teaching and curriculum development experience.

Translated HPL documents on their way!

From Helen Chou, 2:02PM:

I wanted to let you know that the International Services – Translated Documents binders should be arriving at your locations this week!

This binder serves as your location’s way to store copies of translated documents and other International Services material, organized by language.

There are 5 language sections, separated by white dividers. Each section has 8 plastic two-pocket multi-color document holders – to store a potential of 16 different documents per language! The pockets can hold approximately 20-30 copies of each document.

Our team has taken time to populate the binder with the existing translated documents. You can replenish these documents by ordering from Communications, and you can use the additional tabs to store new translated documents as they come in (More are coming!).

These binders can be placed at desks for staff’s convenience. Please walk through the binders with your staff to show them the different languages and documents.

The white dividers each set off a different language, with the following color-coding. (If you want, you can use pen to write the names of the languages on the white divider tabs – they are ‘Write-On’ tabs.) 

•     [Yellow] Spanish
•  [Red]      Vietnamese
•  [White]    Chinese
•  [Green]   Arabic
•  [Pink]      French

Enjoy your binders! For any questions or translation requests, please do not hesitate to contact me.

UPDATE: From Karen, 6/24/17: The notebooks have arrived and are available at the information desk.