Reacting to growing demand from librarians who don’t speak Spanish but are looking to establish Spanish-language collections to serve patrons, EBSCO Information Services launched NoveList’s Core Collection en Español in October 2022.

The service offers librarians listings, reviews, and metadata for approximately 7,000 titles in Spanish. The books are divided into three self-explanatory categories—essential, recommended, and supplemental—and cover all topics, from fiction, nonfiction and children’s and YA books to other, more fundamental material such as cookbooks and study guides.

“The need for Spanish-language content hasn’t changed in a decade, it’s the demand that has changed, especially as the demographics of the United States are evolving,” says Maria Fonseca-Gonzalez, a NoveList librarian and curator. Fonseca-Gonzalez was part of the team of three that initially selected titles to go into the program. A second-generation immigrant with a Puerto Rican mother and a Mexican father, Fonseca-Gonzalez is a specialist in young adult nonfiction and has worked in libraries throughout the Chicagoland metroplex and suburbs.

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