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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 - Latin - Mandarin - Polish - Portuguese - Russian - Spanish - Ukrainian - Urdu

Arabic

Cantonese

Dutch

Farsi (Persian)

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
SEE ALSO: French

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Italian

Name: John Melczer
Email: jmelczer@mit.edu
Phone: x3-0746
Proficiency: read well, speak fair
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translations, transliteration, cataloging help, language table lunch
SEE ALSO: French, German, Latin

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Japanese

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

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Latin

Name: John Melczer
Email: jmelczer@mit.edu
Phone: 617-253-0746
Proficiency: read well
Availability: visitors correspondence translations transliteration cataloging help language table lunch
SEE ALSO: French, German, Italian,

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Mandarin

Name: Grace Wiersma
Email: gwiersma@mit.edu
Phone: x3-0643
Proficiency: read and understand well, speak either dialect and write o.k.
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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Portuguese

Name: Miguel Rivera
Email: mrivera@mit.edu
Phone: x3-1782
Proficiency: understand, speak fair
Availability: visitors, correspondence
See ALSO: Spanish

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

Name: Miguel Rivera
Email: mrivera@mit.edu
Phone: x3-1782
Proficiency: native speaker
Availability: visitors, correspondence, translation, cataloging help
See ALSO: Portuguese

Name: Sylvia Mejia
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

created Jan. 26, 1999 - last updated on 06/03/07

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