Tag: Latin America

Jul 03 2009

Europe, Images, Latin America, Libraries, Library \ Book Tourism, Maps, World

Ibero-Amerikanische Institut

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This year’s SALALM conference was hosted by the Ibero-Amerikanische Institut (IAI), and I had the opportunity to take a tour of the library. The IAI hosts the largest collection on...

Jun 29 2009

Education, Libraries, World

SALALM, 2009

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SALALM is the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials and dates back to 1956. Back then a group of librarians got together to try and figure out...

Jun 04 2009

Education, Politics, World

ALAS (América Latina en Acción Solidaria) was founded in December 2006 as a medium to mobilize Latin American society in favor of young children. The organization’s leadership includes renown artists,...

May 18 2009

Latin America, Poetry, Uruguay, World

Mario Benedetti, 1920-2009

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Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist and poet passed away yesterday May 17. I’ve loved Benedetti’s work from the minute I heard his poem “Hagamos un Trato” back in the tenth...

Apr 24 2009

Europe, Images, Open Access, Photographs, USA, Videos, Web 2.0, Women, World

Latinas in History

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As the name implies, Latinas in History is about Latinas around the world, and throughout the ages (although with heavy emphasis on the USA); both the stories of individual women,...

Apr 21 2009

Americas, Archives, Professional Development, Spain, World

Library Scholarships for Residents of Certain Spanish Speaking Countries

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I just found out that the Spanish Ministry of Culture is offering scholarships for library and archive professionals from a number of Spanish speaking countries. To apply you must be...

Apr 20 2009

Archives, bi/multilingual, Databases, Digital, Europe, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, Open Access, Photographs, Videos, Web 2.0, World

World Digital Library Goes Live

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Today the World Digital Library goes live! The project has been in the works for about 4 years now, and was initially conceived by James Billington of the USA Library...

Apr 13 2009

Images, Photographs, Technology, World

New Technologies Connect Rural Colombia

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Here’s a very interesting photo essay from Wired magazine about the impact of new technologies on a small onion growing town in Colombia. The author and photographer capture a town...

Apr 06 2009

Book Reviews

“Mexican Enough,” by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

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Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines by Stephanie Elizondo Griest My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is an interesting book, although it really only scratched the surface of...

Mar 28 2009

bi/multilingual, Libraries, USA

Rare Mexican-American Songs go Online

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The Chicano Studies Center at UCLA has uploaded over 41,000 songs to an online repository titled Musica de la Frontera. A number of these songs date back as early as...