SALALM LVII Registration Deadline
Early registration for SALALM ends tomorrow, May 18th! Please register now to avoid late fees.
‘News’ Archives
SALALM LVII Schedule update
An almost final version is now available under Conference / Program, above!
Lynn Shirey
2012 Election Results
The Nominations Committee would like to extend its congratulations to our newly elected SALALM leaders.
El Comité de Nominaciones quiere dar la enhorabuena a los nuevos representantes de SALALM.
VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT ELECT (Vicepresidente/Presidente Electo): Roberto Delgadillo (University of California, Davis)
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS AT LARGE, 2012-2015 (Miembros del Comité Ejecutivo):
Paloma Celis-Carbajal (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Daisy Domínguez (The City College of New York Libraries)
Thank you for participating in this year’s elections. Nuestro agradecimiento por participar en las elecciones. Seventy one percent of SALALM members voted this year!
Ana María Cobos
Saddleback College Library
Jesus Alonso-Regalado
SUNY, Albany
Stephanie Rocío Miles
Harvard University
Registration deadline MAY 18!
Please remember to register for our Trinidad conference by May 18th!
Lynn Shirey
Trinidad & Tobago Visit
I just returned from a quick visit to Port of Spain. The hotel is wonderful, with views of the mountains and city on all sides. Best of all, the Trinidadians (“Trinis”) are great hosts. It promises to be another great conference, and we are in very good hands.
I visited NALIS (the National Library), in downtown Port of Spain, where the Host Reception will be held on Monday, June 17th. The University of the West Indies campus and library are located in St. Augustine, a few miles outside of the city, and tours of the Alma Jordan Library will be offered. I visited the West Indiana collection and the Eric Williams special collection, and it’s worth a trip!
Weather: rain, clouds, sun, hot– fairly unpredictable! So come prepared. You won’t be cold!
Lynn Shirey
Harvard University
Provisional Conference Schedule Posted
Please see the nearly final SALALM conference program on the conference site under Program!
Minor adjustments will be made between now and time of printing.
Lynn Shirey
Presidenta
Sign up for the May 16 Webinar: Collecting for Latin America & Spain
- Adán Griego, Curator for Iberoamerican and Mexican American Collections at Stanford University
The Latino population in our country is growing and, with it, the demand for culturally relevant information. Library users in academic and public libraries want more materials about Latin American and Latino issues – especially from the perspective of those cultures. At the same time, libraries are facing difficult economic challenges, resulting in staff shortages and the necessity for some librarians to assume new roles and collect in subject areas and languages that are unfamiliar to them.
This 90-minute webinar will address these concerns by providing tangible selection tools for collecting materials in Latin American and Latino Studies and Spanish Literature. Other discussion topics will include publishing trends and strategies for effectively using these resources regardless of Spanish-speaking ability. Tailored to the non-specialist and new professional, this webinar is a must-see for anyone who wants to build her knowledge and confidence about collecting materials in these disciplines.
The session will be hosted by Adán Griego, Curator for Iberoamerican and Mexican American Collections at Stanford. Having held this position since 1996, Adán is always looking for those unique or rare items (photos, manuscripts, posters, books) that will enhance collections. A former president of SALALM, Adán is also a REFORMA life-time member and is active in ALA. This webinar is co-sponsored by SALALM and the ALA International Relations Office.
Voting Deadline Extended through May 4!
Please remember to cast your vote for SALALM officers! the new deadline is May 4. You should have received an electronic ballot via email.
Lynn Shirey
Harvard University
New Curator of Special Collections at Tulane
Dear Colleagues:
I am delighted to announce that, effective today, Christine Hernandez is the new Curator of Special Collections in the Latin American Library (LAL), Tulane University.
Chris received her A.B. in Spanish and Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where she was Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Tulane in 2000.
As an independent scholar, Chris has published widely on the prehistory of the El Bajío, Lerma River Valley, and northeastern Michoacán. She has also studied the pre-Columbian painted manuscripts (“codices”) from the Maya area and highland Mexico which involves calendrical study, cultural astronomy, iconographic study, and epigraphy in both centers of civilization. She recently completed a book manuscript on the Mesoamerican codices co-authored with Gabrielle Vail and developed an online database that contains all four Maya codices (http://www.mayacodices.org);
As a Research Associate at Tulane’s Middle American Research Institute (MARI), Chris wrote grants to fund a digitization project for joint MARI and LAL materials; developed a four-year collections management and conservation plan for the MARI archive; managed their publication sales; and helped to organize the annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop event. At the Latin American Library, Chris inventoried and developed a collection guide to the Merle Greene Robertson Collection in 2008-2009 and in 2012. She has also served at LAL in a grant-writing capacity as well as co-curator, with LAL staff, of the exhibitions “Maya Time Reckoning and the Language of Creation: Views from the Merle Green Robertson Collection” (2009) and “Sacred Cenotes, Hidden Caverns: Fifty Years of Research in the Maya Area” (2008).
Hortensia Calvo
Tulane University
Preliminary Conference Schedule Now Available
A preliminary schedule for SALALM LVII to be hosted by the University of the West Indies in Port of Spain, Trinidad, has now been posted. View it here: http://salalm.org/Conf/program/
