LASO Letras
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LASO Letras Blog
The LASO Letras Blog goes from basic to brilliant as needed. We'll post everything ranging from the agenda to our next meeting to action items for a particular event. 

We'll also post those deep thoughts triggered in your head after a great History lecture, or maybe the poem inspired by listening to one of our visiting authors.  

So come back often or updates and submit your ideas sooner than later.

LASO Letras

The beginning and the end: Cesar Chavez and Selen

by Team LASO on 03/22/16

March 31 marks the birth of Cesar Chavez & the passing of Selena.

Tell ?#?LASO how you want to honor this History.

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Noon - 1pm

ACAD 126 Lone Star College-North Harris

What is a Community Library? Why Do They Matter?

by Team LASO on 11/24/15

What is a Community Library?

 

 A community Library is a Gateway Library:

 

Whenever I think of a community library the first thing that comes to my mind is a place to do research and do your homework. I am not really sure what is taught at library since I am sad to admit that I hardly go to the library. I can remember going when I was in high school to do research or to use the computer and/or the printers since we did not have either at home, but the hardest part of all was trying to get my parents to drive me there. With my mom not knowing how to drive very well and my dad always working, I just stopped trying after having to go through all of the explaining of why I wanted to go. -- Eduardo Veliz

 

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                One of the things that a “community library taught me was the love for books and how to treat books. I remember that my mom used to take us to our community library very often (it was close enough that we could walk, with and adult; or at least back in the days we would walk) to check out books. Since back then she was unable to read the language, she would make us ask the librarians to help in knowing how to look for age appropriate books. I remember the librarians would take us to the sections where the books were located and would stress the importance of how to treat them and the consequences there was if not followed. I grew up reading books like The Babysitters club, Goosebumps, etc.

                Being here in North Harris trying to obtain a degree is a little easier because the community library showed me how to research on a specific topic. I love history, and a semester ago I decided to take on the challenge of taking Honors History. Our only and final grade was to write a fifteen page research paper (my paper was on women, and what degrees they obtain and how they were used) using only books, journals and limited two internet sources. Without the community library sources the job would be very difficult.

                Another very aspect of community libraries for me are the programs they offer that allow people to interact (face to face), especially now where this is becoming extinct.  The library offers programs for children to help them build skills and to interact with children of similar ages. The programs for adults are there to help us learn about different aspects of our lives. Learning about different cultures and sometimes even learning about our own.

As a community project for my Mexican-American literature class, we are creating a “mini community library”. The class is trying to get donation of books and place them at a community church so that the community can have access to them, and it can help them love books or help in studying and making hopefully some research as well.

Being a community library outside the “library” will help these people (the majority being immigrants) have access to different books. In order to check books out at a regular library you need a library card, where identification is needed, and unfortunately many of them cannot obtain. This library will be different, and the best part is that it will be located in a spot (place) where they already go to, having zero excuses of not going. --Modesta Leal

 

Empower Your Neighborhood & Family! Get Deputized to Register Voters.

by Team LASO on 08/30/15

Don't just get registered to vote-get deputized to 
register voters and empower your family, your
friends, your neighborhood. Join us today!


Wednesday, September 9, 2015:

Get Deputized to Register Voters

6pm – 8 pm

Baker Ripley

6500 Rookin, Houston, TX 77074



 

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LASO 2015 - 2016

by Team LASO on 08/27/15

www.LASOlsc.org (Check the website and Facebook page for updates and  changes.)

 

LASO Meeting:

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

ACAD 126

Noon – 1 pm

 

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Involvement Fair: Volunteers needed

10:30 pm – 1:00 pm

LSC-NH Courtyard

 

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

11:30 pm – 1:00 pm

LSC-NH Courtyard

 

LASO Meeting:

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

CMED 101

1 pm – 2pm

 

Wednesday, September 9, 2015:

Get Deputized to Register Voters

6pm – 8 pm

Baker Ripley

6500 Rookin, Houston, TX 77074

 

A van will provide rides from Lone Star College-North Harris at 5pm. But you must register for the van.  Email Antonio.Diaz@lonestar.edu

 

Tuesday, Sept. 15: 12:30 – 1:30

Hispanic Heritage Month Kick Off

2nd Floor Library

 

Thursday, Sept. 17 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Lone Star College-North Harris

Student Center Conference Hall.

Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration

Latino Americans: 500 Years of History

Film Screening and Discussion with Film Maker John Valadez

Presented by LASO and Lone Star College-NH Library Services

 

Tuesday, Sept. 22: National Voter Registration Day

 

Tuesday, September 24, 2015

12:30 – 1:50 PM

LASO at the Movies

See A CLASS APART, about the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Free. ACAD 218

 

LASO meeting:

Wednesday, September 23

1 pm – 2pm

ACAD 126

 

LASO meeting:

Tuesday, September 29

Noon – 1 PM

ACAD 126

 

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

10 am – 11 am, Lone Star College-Greenspoint 205

Noon – 1:30 pm: Lone Star College-North Harris ACAD 218

Judge Lupe S. Salinas, professor at Thurgood Marshall School of Law will discuss his book: “U.S. Latinos and Criminal Injustice.”

 

LASO meeting:

Wednesday, October 7

1 pm – 2pm

CMED 101

 

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

10 am – 11:30 am Lone Star College-Greenspoint 306

Noon – 12:30 Lone Star College-North Harris ACAD 126

ACAD 126, LSC-NH

500 Years of History:  Film Screening of PBS Documentary and Discussion with Mexican American Studies Professor Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante

Free.

 

LASO meeting:

Wednesday, October 21

1 pm – 2pm

CMED 101

 

LASO meeting:

Tuesday, October 27

Noon – 1pm

CMED 101

 

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

12:30 – 1:50 PM

LASO at the Movies

See “Zoot Suit”

Free. ACAD 218

LASO meeting:

Wednesday, November 4

1 pm – 2pm

CMED 101

 

LASO meeting:

Tuesday, November 10

Noon – 1pm

ACAD 126

 

LASO meeting:

Wednesday, November 18

1 pm – 2pm

ACAD 126

 

Houston Hispanic Forum

Career and Education Day

Saturday, February 13, 2016

9 am – 3pm

George R. Brown Convention Center