Spanish, English coexist at Oregon libraries

Increasingly, the Ashland Public Library is becoming a place where the Navarretes and any family that wants to raise multilingual children can get help in those efforts.

Most Spanish-language and bilingual books used to be concentrated at Jackson County’s main branch in Medford. But librarians are making more of an effort to make those books available countywide, said Perii Hauschild-Owen, a librarian in the Ashland Public Library’s children’s department.