i'd attended the regional library location of the library in the neighborhood i'm living, for the first time the most recent tuesday. i've heard about the library location previously, in the summer during hispanic heritage month, as being the hispanic resource center of the tulsa city county library system.
and though i'd visited the library tuesday with the primary purpose of posting a flyer for an event at dave & buster to which i'd been invited to volunteer by jbtl autism birthday club, i also took the opportunity to explore the hispanic resource center, which was rather large, and includes various works of art, books of multiple genres and reading levels, and several tables. i'm most interested in the works of art on display above the dividing book shelf between the main library section and the hispanic resource center, with the left side of the dividing shelf featuring dreamcatchers hanging in a display, and the right side featuring paper cranes lined along string, with the former reminding me of a native north american form of artistic expression and the latter of an asian, especially japanese, artistic expression, although both works included vibrant hues reminiscent of hispanic artistic expression i've seen. to offer a nitpicky critique of the resource center area, i'd found the display case dividing the resource center from the library foyer somewhat confusing, as the events advertised and poetry books on display for the associated month did not seem to me directly connected to hispanic culture. nonetheless, i'm glad that the resource center offers spanish language learning materials, located in the far right corner of the resource center section. and such materials are in addition to a supply of 'la semana' newspaper copies in a larger supply than i've ever seen at the library location by the neighborhood i'm living.
and lastly, transitioning to some quick remarks about the library staff, i'd recognized a librarian i've seen multiple times at the aforementioned neighborhood library location, and took a few minutes to say hi, and was recognized and greeted in return, and had a question answered about whether the library location allows for opportunities to practice spanish language speaking skills, to which i was told yes. further, another librarian who agreed to post the flyer was friendly and polite also. read more