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13 Resources program, Gary Job Corps, and the Adult Education Department of the San Marcos High School about bringing groups of clients to these seminars. They are all very enthusiastic about the idea. Although these groups are the primary target audience for the seminars, they Hi 11 also be open to the general public, H, Expansion of our bilingual publicity campaign to introduce members of the ESL community to the services and resources of the public library. In the past months the library has increased its publicity efforts in the ESL community. The Project Coordinator has developed two bilingual fliers, produced bilingual public service announcements for area newspapers and the radio station, and spoken to several Hispanic organizations. It appears that these efforts have been successful as our ESL and GED programs are growing. In the coming year, the Coordinator plans to produce a bilingual flier advertising the services of the Job Information Center, produce a bilingual employment resource guide, continue speaking to organizations representing the ESL community, and distribute printed information through door-to-door canvassing of Hispanic neighborhoods. VI. STAFFING OF THE PROJECT The Lifelong Learning Project will be staffed as follows: A. Lifelong Learning Project Coordinator The Project Coordinator is currently a twenty-hour-per- week position funded by our FY 1989 grant. Due to the increased responsibilities of the position detailed below, we are proposing that the project coordinator be expanded to a forty-hour~per-week position in FY 1990. Our current Coordinator, Jonathan Engel, is bilingual (English-Spanish), He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin American Studies and a Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology, both from the University of Texas at Austin, Field work for his Master's thesis Has carried out in a low income urban setting in Guadalajara, Mexico, During this time he met and interviewed many Mexican men and women who had substantial work experience and/or relatives in the southwestern United States. This experience provided him with an understanding of, and an empathy for, the many problems that foreign language speakers face in our society, Mr. Engel has proven to be very effective with regard to tutor training, wot-king with ~tudents and tutors, networking with other agencies which service the ESL population, and developing an