Sudden Selector’s Guide to Romance Languages and Literatures

Deborah Raftus is the Librarian for French and Italian Studies, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. She actively participates in ACRL’s European Studies Section, SALALM (the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials), and CIFNAL, the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections. She also supervises MLIS graduate student workers and co-coordinates a comprehensive training program on reference and instruction services at UW Libraries. In 2016, Deb and her colleagues were awarded the ACRL-Washington Excellence Award for the program’s significant impact on Washington State academic librarianship.

Jeffrey Staiger has worked in academic libraries since 2006, specializing in reference, instruction, and collection development. After serving as a reference and instruction librarian at Seton Hall University, he became the Librarian for Romance Languages at the University of Oregon, where he currently serves as the Librarian for English, French, Italian, Philosophy and Classics. He has served as Chair of the Western European Studies Section of the ACRL and is a member of the Modern Language Association.