CE Project Agreement for III-A-3 (002)

Create Spanish-language signs and forms

Word version of this agreement

Purpose: Provide Spanish-language signs and forms to help Spanish speakers use the library.

Name of library:

Today’s date:

Proposed completion date:

Core skill: III-A-3 establish a welcoming environment that encourages active use of library services by the public with convenient public servies, effective study areas, convenient traffic flow and excellent signage.

Eligible participants: Librarians

Repeatable?: No.

Do you want help from a CKLS consultant?
___ No help needed.
___ Yes, modify project agreement
___ Yes, suggest other readings or learning
___ Yes, early preparation visit
___ Yes, one-on-one coaching through activity
___ Yes, other: _______________________________

Learning component:

Attend a CE event on reviewing library policy or read the following materials.

Look at the following Web sites.

• Bilingual Library Signage by Texas State Library (Wayback)
• Spanish in our libraries (Wayback)
• Sample Spanish-language library card applications:
• Webjunction (Wayback) Please note that that this card asks for the maiden name because this is commonly used by Spanish-speakers.
• Wisconsin: English version (Wayback) and Spanish version (Wayback)
• San Diego: English version (Wayback) and Spanish version (Wayback)
• Spanish-language library policies (Wayback)
  
• Spanish language version of the Library Bill of Rights
• English-Spanish Dictionary. Searching for fiction, for example, retrieves Spanish translations for genre variations such as "ficción infantil" for children's fiction or "novelas de horror" for horror fiction.
• Library signage evaluation for identifying problems with your current English signs. It is a waste of time to create a Spanish sign for an incorrect or out-of-date English sign.

Library work component:

1. Create Spanish-language versions of your major interior library signs.
For readability, signs should have the following characteristics.
• Letters are in a san-serif font.
• Letters are 1” high for every 50’ of desired visibility.
• High contrast between the letters and the background.
• Width-to-height ratio of signs are between 3-to-5 and 1-to-2.
• Letters and numbers have a width to height ratio of 1-to-5 and 1-to-10.
2. Post these up in your library.
   For visibility, signs should have the following characteristics.
   • Signs are perpendicular to the route of travel.
   • Wall and door signs are 60” above floor.
   • Signs hanging from ceiling are at least 80” above the floor, with letters at least 3” high.

3. To obtain credit, submit the following items.
• A list of all the Spanish signs created with English translations.
• A copy of the Spanish-language library card application.
  
• A copy of the Spanish-language library policies. (CKLS will translate if no one local can.)
  
• If you have a patron Internet use agreement, then send a copy of the Spanish-language Internet-use agreement. (CKLS will translate if no one local can.)
  
• A filled out CE Project Agreement Evaluation form (Word document)