Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives
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- ISBN 9781442258495
- Weight: 603g
- Dimensions: 159 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Patricia Montiel-Overall is a sixth-generation, Spanish-speaking Tucsonan. Her great-great grandfather was in the first Arizona Territorial Legislature; his father arrived in Nueva Españain 1775, a year before the Declaration of Independence was introduced in Philadelphia. She received her doctorate from Stanford University and is on the faculty at the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science.
Annabelle Villaescusa Nuñez is a bilingual, second-generation Latina. She is the daughter of immigrant parents who came from the state of Sonora in Mexico. She is well-known in the community as an activist and actress, having performed in various Borderlands Theater productions. She is on the faculty at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, where she works in outreach services to extend health information to the community.
Verónica Reyes-Escudero is a Mexican American librarian who immigrated with her family to a US border town when she was three years old. She is a fluent Spanish speaker and with her family of migrant farm workers spent many years traveling between Arizona and California from the mid-1970s through the 1980s. She is on the faculty of the University of Arizona, working in the University Libraries Special Collections, where she is responsible for the acquisition of numerous historical collections.
