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ALA's Office for Literacy & Outreach Services | Supporting the Libraries of Underserved Populations

Librarians' Associations of Color

OLOS is the ALA staff liaison to organizations that either represent or target their resources to support traditionally underserved populations in library communities.

American Indian Library Association (AILA)

President

Janice Rice (Ho Chunk)
jrice@library.wisc.edu

Newsletter

Rhonda Harris
SLIS - 401 West Brooks
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
rtaylor@ou.edu
Phone:405-325-3921
Fax: 405-325-7648

Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)

President

Buenaventura (Ven) B. Basco
Associate University Librarian
Coordinator,
InfoSource/Research Consultations
University of Central Florida Libraries
PO Box 162666 Orlando, FL 32816-2666
Phone: 407 823-5048
Fax: 407 823-5865
bbasco@mail.ucf.edu

Newsletter

Suhasini L. Kumar, Co-Chair
Associate Professor, Library Administration Coordinator Information & Research Services Carlson Library
The University of Toledo
2801 West Bancroft St.
Toledo, OH 43606
Ph: 419-530-4485
Skumar@utnet.utoledo.edu

Gerardo Gary Colmenar, Co-Chair
Information Services Davidson Library
U.C. Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
colmenar@library.ucsb.edu

Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)

President

Wanda K.Brown Associate Director
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
voice: 336 758-5094
fax: 336 758-4652
brownw@wfu.edu

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BCALA Newsletter
S.D. Harris, Interim Editor
P.O. Box 1288
Norwalk, CT 06856
sdh.newsletter@bcala.org

Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)

President

Dora Ho
dora4ala@yahoo.com

Newsletter

Shixing Wen
shwen@umich.edu

Listserv Administrator

Bin Zhang
Digital Information Services Librarian
Library Information Systems
California State University, Sacramento

Webmaster

Vincci Kwong
Assistant Librarian
Head of Web Services
Franklin D. Schurz Library
Indiana University South Bend

REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking

President

Mario Ascencio
mascenci@gmu.edu

Newsletter

Freda Mosquera

fmosquera@browardlibrary.org

Interim webmaster

José Ruiz-Alvarez
reformista4ever@hotmail.com



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