Sunshine & Stories Talks Summer Services and Hispanohablante Communities

What is Sunshine & Stories?

Sunshine & Stories is a Colorado State Library podcast dedicated to all things summer in public libraries. During our 2024-25 season, keep an eye out for new episodes twice a month from August to May. We’ll explore topics like performers, incentives, outreach, volunteers, capturing impact, and many more ideas related to designing a summer public library program for your whole community (adults included!). Featuring interviews with other Colorado State Library staff and ideas from Colorado library professionals around the state, this podcast aims to provide valuable insight and spark creative ideas in your public library’s own 2025 summer planning. Whether you’re a veteran in the summer library program planning world, a newbie looking to start a summer program for the first time, or someone who’s considering changing up your program a little or a lot this year, we hope this podcast will be a valuable resource for you.

Episode 106: Hispanohablante Communities and Your Library:

Episode Summary:

The Kates were thrilled to have Cristy Moran, Adult Library Services Senior Consultant at the Colorado State Library join them today to talk about summer library services and Spanish-speakers in our communities. Kate, Kate, & Cristy sat down to talk about why vocabulary matters, strategies for learning about who is speaking what languages in your community, and what this all has to do with designing more inclusive summer experiences for all our communities of service.

00:00 – Introduction
01:11 – Why use “hispanohablante”?
03:42 – Learning your community’s Spanish (or other language) speakers
11:45 – What does this have to do with summer?
16:02 – It’s ok to make mistakes, keep going
18:14 – Book and resource highlights
20:52 – Closing

Resources:

Collaborative Summer Library Program
Colorado State Demography Office
US Census Bureau American Communities Survey Data
STARnet Community Dialogues Toolkit
Spanish for Libraries at CSL
En comunidad : lessons for centering the voices and experiences of bilingual Latinx students by Carla España, Luz Yadira Herrera, and Ofelia García
¡Sí! Somos latinos por Alma Flor Ada, F. Isabel Campoy, and David Diaz
Yes! we are Latinos by Alma Flor Ada, F. Isabel Campoy, and David Diaz
Me dicen Güero : poemas de un chavo de la frontera por David Bowles
They call me Güero : a border kid’s poems by David Bowles
Le dicen Fregona : poemas de un chavo de la frontera por David Bowles
They call her Fregona : a border kid’s poems by David Bowles

CO State Library (CSL) Resources: (available for all CO libraries to check out)
CSL Stories and Storytelling for Adult Emerging Readers Program Kit
CSL Book Club Resource & Colorado State Library Spanish Book Club Kits

Reach out to Cristy Moran, Adult Library Services Senior Consultant at: moran_c@cde.state.co.us

Next Drop-in Chat:

Hey Colorado library folks! Join us on October 22, 2024 at 11:00 am to noon Mountain Time for our next online Summer Drop-in Chat. Cristy Moran will join us to further the discussion about summer library service and Spanish-speakers in your community. No need to register. Come when you can, stay for as long as you can. See you soon!

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