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Libraries Advisory Committee on Workplace Issues

Language List:

The Advisory Committee on Workplace Issues maintains this list of staff members with non-English language skills. The goal is to have, at hand, a resource list for library staff and to give people the opportunity to volunteer their skills.

Reminder: please talk with your supervisor if "extra" activities will take a lot of your time.

Arabic - Cantonese - Dutch - Farsi - Finnish - French - German - Hebrew -Hindi - Hungarian - Italian - Japanese - Polish - Romanian - Russian - Spanish - Ukrainian - Urdu

Arabic

Name: Omar Khalidi
Email: okhalidi@mit.edu
Phone: x8-5597
Proficiency: read and understand
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translations, transliteration, cataloging help
SEE ALSO: Farsi, French, Hindi, Urdu

Name: Yahya Melhem
Email: yahya@mit.edu
Phone: x3-5906
Proficiency: Native speaker
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translations, cataloging help

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Cantonese

Name: Grace Liang
Email: gliang@mit.edu
Phone: x3-7368
Proficiency: native speaker (speaking only, poor reading/writing)
Availability: visitors language table lunch
SEE ALSO: Japanese

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Dutch

Name: Jos Wanschers
Email: jgwansch@mit.edu
Phone: x3-9323
Proficiency: native speaker
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translations, cataloging help, language table lunch
SEE ALSO: German

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Farsi (Persian)

Name: Omar Khalidi
Email: okhalidi@mit.edu
Phone: x8-5597
Proficiency: read and understand
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translations, transliteration, cataloging help
SEE ALSO: Arabic, French, Hindi, Urdu

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Finnish

Name: Erja Kajosalo
Email: kajosalo@mit.edu
Phone: x3-9795
Proficiency: Native speaker
Availability: visitors, transliteration, cataloging help, language table lunch

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French

German

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Name: Amy Stout
Email: astout@mit.edu
Phone: x3-4442
Proficiency: sreak well, read fair
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translations, transliteration, cataloging help, language table lunch


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Italian

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Japanese

Name: Kevin Sheehan
Email: ksheehan@mit.edu
Phone: x3-1837
Proficiency: speak fair
Availability: visitors, transliteration

Name: Grace Liang  
Email: gliang@mit.edu  
Phone: x3-7368  Language: Japanese  
Proficiency: speak, read, write fair  
Availability: visitors correspondence translations transliteration cataloging help language table lunch
SEE ALSO: Cantonese 

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Persian (see Farsi)

Polish

Name: Czeslaw H. Jankowski
Email: czeslaw@mit.edu
Phone: x8-5430
Proficiency: native speaker
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translations, cataloging help

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Romanian

Name: Daniel Saulean
Email: saulean@mit.edu
Phone: x3-0605
Language: Romanian
Proficiency: native speaker
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translations, transliteration, cataloging help, language table lunch

Russian

Name: Christine Moulen
Email: orbitee@mit.edu
Phone: x3-0757
Proficiency: studied 2 years+
Availability: cataloging help, transliteration & a little translation

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Spanish

Name: Lisa Horowitz
Email: lisah@mit.edu
Phone: x3-9353
Proficiency: read fair
Availability: translations
See ALSO: French, Hebrew, Italian

Name: Laura M. Lucero
Email: lucero@mit.edu
Phone: x3-7378
Proficiency: Native speaker
Availability: visitors, correspondence, cataloging help

Name: Katherine McNeill
Email: mcneillh@mit.edu
Phone: x3-0787
Proficiency: read and speak well
Availability: visitors, translations, language table lunch

Name: Theresa A. Tobin
Email: tat@mit.edu
Phone: x3-5674
Proficiency: read well, speak some, understand spoken language well.
Availability: visitors, translations, cataloging help
Other: visiting libraries in Latin America!

Name: Sylvia Mejia-Suarez
Email: smejia@mit.edu
Phone: x8-5568
Proficiency: native speaker
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translation, language table lunch

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Ukrainian

Name: Irene Mazor
Email: imazor@mit.edu
Phone: x3-2722
Proficiency: fluent
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translations, transliteration, cataloging help, language table lunch
SEE ALSO: Russian

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Urdu

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created Jan. 26, 1999 - last updated on Tuesday, 03-Nov-2009 14:58:19 EST

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