Per capita, there are fewer Latino librarians today in the state than there were in the 1960s. Contributing factors have been the demise of the library schools at the University of Southern California and Cal State Fullerton and the low recruitment and enrollment of Latinos within the University of California library schools at Los Angeles and Berkeley. This is part of a more generalized problem within the University of California-ma. UCLA's Graduate School of Library and Information Science is prepared to immediately develop a mechanism to address these needs. They have borrowed the concept of teaching libraries from teaching hospitals as an organizational concept to address regional needs. This regional approach would utilize the southern campuses of the University of California as instructional sites. Key aspects of the program would be the utilization of librarians from these campuses as adjunct lecturers, establishment of intern sites at the various campuses and the use of teleconferencing for specific courses. Admissions would remain centralized at UCLA. The organizational concept of teaching libraries provides an excellent framework for addressing the problems of recruitment, curriculum and research with respect to Latinos and librarianship. For example it could draw on the success of such programs as the Graduate Library Institute for Spanish-Speaking Americans (GUSA) at the University of Arizona, which made a critical difference in producing greater numbers of Latino librarians. In fact this program has produced many of the leading Latino librarians practicing today. Teaching libraries would serve to strengthen the UCLA/REFORMA (the National Association to Promote Library Services to the Spanish Speaking) Mentorship Program. This mentorship program needs to be nurtured with adequate resources. Berkeley is in the initial stages of developing a more limited mentorship program. Finally teaching libraries would facilitate the development of specific modules to address Latino concerns.

Faculty recruitment remains a major concern among the library schools. Target of Opportunity FTA's should be creatively utilized to attract Latino ladder rank faculty. The development of ethnic bibliographic and service courses and the hiring of Latino librarians has provided a beginning in the exploration of instructional and research is-sues dealing with Latinos. However the shortage of Latino librarians limits the amount which can be done on any particular campus. Continuing education efforts should en-courage Latino practitioners to consider additional training and may interest them in continuing their library education in such areas as automation, management, or systems work.