Florida's First Spanish-Language Portal
Interface Volume 25, Summer, 2003. Interface is the newsletter published by the ASCLA division of the ALA. The Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN) has opened of MiServiciodeBiblioteca.org, a new Web portal that enhances the connections between Spanish speakers and the libraries of southeast Florida. For the first time, twenty-five southeast Florida libraries/library systems, with more than 12 million library items, may be accessed via a Spanish language “single-search” service.
Volume 25, Number 2, 2003
Florida’s First Spanish-Language Library Portal Launched
by Tom Sloan, SEFLIN
The Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN) announces the opening of MiServiciodeBiblioteca.org, a new Web
portal that enhances the connections between Spanish speakers and the libraries of southeast Florida. For the first time,
twenty-five southeast Florida libraries/library systems, with more than 12 million library items, may be accessed via a
Spanish language “single-search” service.
MiServiciodeBiblioteca.org also features a Spanish language "Guide to Libraries in Southeast Florida," which includes a
searchable directory of more than 300 libraries, information about each library, and a map of each library location.
Additionally, MiServiciodeBiblioteca.org provides resources to assist library staff in serving Spanish-speaking library users.
“MiServiciodeBiblioteca.org is a landmark partnership between the SEFLIN board of directors and the State Library of Florida
that provides the public with one of the largest Spanish language library portals in the nation,” stated Tom Sloan, SEFLIN’s
executive director. “MiServiciodeBiblioteca.org enhances library services to Spanish speakers including the more than
1.6 million Southeast Floridians who are of Spanish speaking origin.”
SEFLIN is a library cooperative whose members represent more than 300 public, academic, and school libraries/library systems
in Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties. SEFLIN is a leader in collaboratively planning and implementing
library technology and services that link libraries and the communities they serve.
MiServiciodeBiblioteca.org has been funded in part under the provisions of the Library Service and Technology Act, from
the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of Florida.
Visit MiServiciodeBiblioteca.org. For more information,
contact Tom Sloan or Charles Mayberry at 954-357-7345.
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Florida’s First Spanish-Language Portal