Spanish for Library Staff

$20.00

ISBN: 978-1-888467-33-8 copyright by Command Spanish® , Inc. 85 pages

Program Overview: This is a comprehensive Spanish language program that provides immediate access to functional, work-specific language skills for non-Spanish-speaking library staff who need to communicate with Spanish-speaking library patrons. The program consists of a 85-page manual and accompanying .mp3 audio files for enhanced learning. Spanish for Library Staff utilizes print, audio, and phonetic encoding to teach the most common and important Spanish language commands, questions, statements and phrases pertinent to daily interactions in a library setting.

ISBN: 978-1-888467-33-8 copyright by Command Spanish® , Inc. 85 pages

Program Overview: This is a comprehensive Spanish language program that provides immediate access to functional, work-specific language skills for non-Spanish-speaking library staff who need to communicate with Spanish-speaking library patrons. The program consists of a 85-page manual and accompanying .mp3 audio files for enhanced learning. Spanish for Library Staff utilizes print, audio, and phonetic encoding to teach the most common and important Spanish language commands, questions, statements and phrases pertinent to daily interactions in a library setting.

Program Content: Spanish for Library Staff contains more than 400 work-specific statements, questions, phrases and commands, that are essential to interactions between Spanish-speaking patrons and non-Spanish-speaking library staff. The program contains the following work-specific language sections: Greetings and Goodbyes; Etiquette and Social Niceties; Giving Traffic Directions in the Library; Communication Strategies; Library Behavior Management; Library Hours of Operation; Numbers; Applying for a Library Card; Accessing Library from Home; Check Out Process and Policies; Interlibrary Loan; Renewing a Library Card; Assistance; Accessing the Online Library Catalog; Library Fines and Books Outstanding; Using Computers; Using the Internet and E-mail Accounts; Using Library Equipment; and Library Security.

Bonus: Spanish for Library Staff also contains the following appendices: The Curious Case of Two Last Names; Dates; Telling Time; English/Spanish Glossaries for Places in the Library and Computer Terms; English/Spanish Signs for the Library; Spanish Alphabet; Using Call Numbers; Selected Dewey Decimal System in Spanish; Documents; Money Matters; and Holidays.

Special Features:

  • No prior knowledge of Spanish is necessary.

  • Contains more than 400 work-specific Spanish questions, commands, statements, and phrases.

  • This program is fully supported by .mp3 audio files that can be played on any device.

  • Learner-friendly text designed for adult learners.

  • Non-grammar-based.

  • Authored in consultation with numerous library directors, librarians, managers, and coordinators.

This program provides library staff with the Spanish necessary to: give directions and assistance to patrons; issue and renew library cards; provide assistance to Spanish-speakers in using the computers, accessing the library from home, operating the online library catalog, utilizing the internet and e-mail, and using the library equipment; and explain the check-out process, and issues regarding overdue books and fines.

This book is invaluable to library staff at all levels, in city and county libraries.