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Vision and Mission

VISION STATEMENT

Building on the visionary leadership of Dr. Arnulfo D. Trejo, the Trejo Foster Foundation will achieve by 2009 what he envisioned in 1992: it will be recognized as a significant, driving force in advocating and supporting library and information education that results in quality services for the Hispanic/Latino community.

Due to the work of the Trejo Foster Foundation, U.S. graduate programs in Library and Information Sciences will have Hispanic/Latino student enrollment proportionate to their incidence in the general population and adequately prepared to serve Hispanic/Latino communities. Strong recruitment and retention programs for Hispanic students will be in place. Furthermore, these programs will infuse the needs of Hispanics/Latinos and other diverse populations into all aspects of the curriculum.

The TFF will be seen as a lead organization concerned with positive change in the public policy arena related to information services to the Hispanic/Latino Spanish-speaking community.

The TFF will sponsor bi-annual, educational institutes to bring together leaders, practitioners and students in the library and information fields to discuss and advocate for issues, policies and practices that affect Hispanic Latino communities and individuals. This will provide opportunities to share scholarship and research that can be integrated into curricula and provide a forum for discussion of issues and public policy. It will help prepare current students for service in Hispanic/Latino communities and support their retention in library programs. The institutes will also serve to recruit new Hispanic/Latino students to the library profession.

TFF will be funded through a variety of public and private sources, and these funds will support the training of future Hispanic/Latino librarians, public policy research, electronic and traditional communication media that will increase the quality of library services to the Hispanic/Latino community, and promote the importance of life-long learning as the best means to maintain quality services for library professionals working with these populations.

In addition, the following were adopted as TFF’s Goals:

To be recognized as a significant, driving force in advocating quality library and information services for Hispanic/Latinos in the United States.
To influence schools of library and information science to recruit, retain and graduate more Hispanic/Latino students and to incorporate more Hispanic/Latino perspectives into the curriculum.
To provide a forum for the development, discussion and promotion of Hispanic/Latino library and information issues.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Trejo Foster Foundation for Hispanic Library Education (TFF) provides leadership, public policy advocacy, research, and library education that enhances library and information services to Hispanic/Latinos in the United States. The Foundation raises the awareness and the commitment of current and future library professionals to the importance of this mission, and recruits new generations of librarians from Hispanic/Latino backgrounds.