About the Institutes

The Trejo Foster Foundation Institutes are a key initiative for the Trejo Foster Foundation, established on September 4, 1992 in Tucson, Arizona to honor and continue the work of Dr. Arnulfo D. Trejo. Born in México and raised in Tucson, Arizona, Dr. Trejo was President of the Trejo Foster Foundation until his passing in 2002. He was also Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona where he once directed the Graduate Library Institute for Spanish-speaking Americans (GLISA). Dr. Trejo also founded Hispanic Books Distributors (HBD) and REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking.

The Trejo Foster Foundation sponsors 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. The institutes provide opportunities to share scholarship and research that can be integrated into curricula and provide a forum for discussion of issues and public policy. The Institutes prepare current students for service in Hispanic/Latino communities and supports their retention in library programs. The institutes also serve to recruit new Hispanic/Latino students to the library profession.

Previous institutes have explored topics as diverse as film, print and sound archives, Hispanic library education, youth services, leadership, public libraries, and library and information services.

The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science and the Arizona Health Sciences Library are pleased to present this seventh biannual Trejo Foster Foundation Institute focusing on issues of health information services for Hispanic constituencies.