Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros

Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros is the Latin American Studies librarian and an assistant professor at The Ohio State University. Espinosa de los Monteros provides reference and research consultations on Spanish, Portuguese, Latin American Studies, and international resources for students, faculty, staff, visiting scholars, and the public. She is library liaison to the Department of the Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Latin American Studies, and the Latino/a Studies Program and works with other departments and divisions on interdisciplinary efforts.

The majority of my career before becoming a librarian was spent in business administration and non-profit development. It wasn’t until I was completing a Fulbright Fellowship in Mexico City helping researchers overcome challenges in cross-cultural information exchange that I realized how librarians facilitate access to global information resources. I saw an opportunity to combine my passion for Latin America with helping people overcome barriers to global information access from and about Latin America.

As a bilingual/bicultural information professional, I facilitate access to global information resources from and about Latin America in support of interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and education. My work supports cross-cultural information exchange for researchers, students, and lifelong learners through:

• Strategic collection development and maintenance of multi-format Spanish language collections leading to expanded information resources serving adults, youth, and children.
• Instruction, course design, and collaborative efforts to internationalize curriculum.
• International programs, projects, services, and events that advance the understanding of Latin America.