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Adan Griego wrote a new blog post: The Rare, Unique and Exotic @ San Francisco’s Antiquarian Book Fair. 3 months, 1 week ago · View
In past years, when the Antiquarian Book Fair comes to San Francisco, the rainy weather has been a welcome incentive to spend a weekend indoors discovering the rare, unique, exotic and colorful. This time, a Spring-like sunny morning welcomed the 200 exhibitors from as far away as England. With names like “Cook Book Lady,” and “Vagabond Books,” [...] -
Adan Griego wrote a new blog post: SALALM’s Presence in Iberoamerican Book Fairs: 2011-The Year in Review 5 months ago · View
The 2011 book fair cycle for Iberoamerica probably started with Havana, whose book festival celebrated its 20th anniversary in February and is often attended by SALALM librarians and book dealers. This year Teresa Chapa (North Carolina) and Eudora Loh (UCLA) were present and went to a satellite book fair in Matanzas, where they also visited Editorial Vigía (home [...] -
Adan Griego wrote a new blog post: SALAMistas at Guadalajara’s 25th Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL 2011) 5 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Even before landing in Guadalajara for the 25th annual Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) SALALM was already present via virtual spaces. On November 16th SALALM’s Webinar Pilot Project Working Group led a online orientation for new FIL attendees for more than 40 virtual participants. A follow-up session was held in Guadalajara (Sunday November 26) with participation from [...] -
Adan Griego wrote a new blog post: SALALM in Madrid 7 months, 1 week ago · View
More than 150 Spanish information professionals attended the panel discussion ¨Nuevas tecnologías y redes sociales en la labor de los profesionales de la información,¨ organized by Madrid´s SEDIC group (http://www.sedic.es/queessedic.asp) . Several SALALAM members shared their experiences in reaching out to library users both inside and outside library walls ( http://www.sedic.es/nuevas-tecnologias-redes-sociales-oct011.asp). The panel was very well received with [...]
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: SALALMistas at ALA-New Orleans 2011 10 months, 3 weeks ago · View
A dozen SALALM members attended ALA’s annual conference in New Orleans this past June. The group’s presence was felt at an ideally located booth, which had a definite local flair with beads and other colorful adornments. The stand was ready for visitors on Friday (6/24) and closed on Monday (6/27). The day before (6/23) SALALM [...] -
AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Molly Molloy Awarded the 2011 José Toribio Medina Award 11 months, 3 weeks ago · View
This morning at the opening ceremony for SALALM’s 56th annual conference Molly Molloy, librarian at New Mexico State University, was honored with the 2011 José Toribio Medina Award . The award recognizes Molly’s outstanding work with the Frontera-List. Victor Federico Torres, chair of the committee, noted that the list “has been hailed as the most comprehensive, up-to-date source of narco-related violence on [...] -
AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: An artist book? An antiquarian book? And it’s not an ebook? 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Here in in the land of Facebook, Google and Twitter hardly a day goes by without a constant mention of ebooks, social networks or a super-wired generation awaiting the next digital technology. So, when I tried to explain to some friends that I was attending a fair for the book arts and another one for [...] -
AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Opening Remarks from SALALM’s President Fernando Acosta Rodriguez 1 year, 9 months ago · View
Some of the very productive discussion that have taken place at SALALM have already been posted by others, but I wanted to share with us all the remarks from SALALM’s president at yesterday’s opening session. “Good morning, bienvenidos, bemvindo, welcome to the 55th meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials [...]
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Second Day at SALALM’s Conference in Providence 1 year, 9 months ago · View
After a constant “vaiven” of back to back activities, the 2nd day of SALALM’s internal meetings seemed less hectic but with just as intense discussions on a variety of topics. The “libreros” gathering provided a forum for SALALM’s vendors to address issues like the constant reduction of library budgets (will it ever end?) and how [...]
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: SALALM’s 55th Annual Meeting from Providence. 1 year, 9 months ago · View
More than 180 SALALM members (librarians,vendors and visitors) have gathered at Providence for the group’s annual meeting which started on Thursday (July 22nd) and is being hosted by Brown University. SALALM’s professional activities started with two pre-conferences: 1) An eclectic group of 22 SALAMistas enjoyed a unique experience: studying rare books dating back to the [...]
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Choosing your own time….at the 2010 Buenos Aires Book Fair 2 years ago · View
Sunday, April 19th. Not too much traffic on Avenida del Libertador yet. It is, after all, barely past noon on a Sunday. “ Lindo dia ,” I say to the taxi driver, “ es un domingo peronista ,” he replies. When I ask why, he proceeds to tell me how politicians used to gather after a typical Sunday “ asado” and some [...] -
AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Surprising Visit to an Anarchist Book Fair 2 years, 2 months ago · View
Image (http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/category/calling-all-anarchists/) I had almost forgotten about it until a friend asked if I had plans to go to the Anarchist Book Fair . I replied, half jokingly, that the last I time I had been to one, it was an unusually warm day and the not so pleasant smell of body odor, combined with all the [...] -
AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Antiquarians in the Age of E-everything (e-books, e-readers) 2 years, 3 months ago · View
Apple’s iPad was unveiled about 2 weeks before the San Francisco Antiquarian Book Fair . The latter event might almost look anachronistic at a time when e-readers seem to be the “ último alarido de la moda….tecnológica ,” certainly with more potent/newer technologies to come. And yet, for the avid collector/bibliophile, the bi-annual event held in the City by [...] -
AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Heard it at the 2009 Gudalajara Book Fair 2 years, 5 months ago · View
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Update from Madrid’s Liber 2009 2 years, 6 months ago · View
Saturday, October 3rd Even before I entered my hotel, off Madrid’s Gran Via I noticed a bookstore right across the street and another one 2 doors down. Plus, the famous Casa del Libro is only 2 blocks away. I was surprised I did not venture into [...]
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Andanzas at the 2009 Bogota Book Fair 2 years, 8 months ago · View
Sunday, August 9th I had planned to attend Bogota’ Book Fair as it was being held at the same time as a conference on Iberoamerican University Presses , where I had managed to get myself invited as a “ponente.” As I waited to board my flight in Los Angeles, I looked over the reading materials I had [...]
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Looking For (Latin American) Art Books in Berlin (July 8, 2009) 2 years, 10 months ago · View
>After the Townhall Meeting we had one more coffee break to enjoy. We were reminded (and invited) to return for the Executive Board Meeting where important matters are always discussed, often times it lasts as long as the LAMP meetings of the first night! But, I managed to escape (unnoticed) and wonder off to visit [...]
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: SALALM’s Opening Day 2 years, 10 months ago · View
The opening reception for SALALM’s annual conference in Berlin saw about 15-20 attendees from the previous meeting in 1986 also held in Berlin. Some things have not changed much since then: the LAMP meeting lasted more than 2 hours. But other changes have taken place: there was no forum to discuss emerging technologies and now [...]
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Prelude to a LAMP Meeting 2 years, 10 months ago · View
July 3, 2009 Roberto Delgadillo (UC Davis) and I enjoyed a Berlin city tour from a low budget and quite entertaining group. The double decker bus had no air conditioning and when we were caught by an unexpected “chubasco” in front of the Branderburg Gate, the lower deck started to leak! But the tour guide [...]
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AdanGriego wrote a new blog post: Beyond a Social Network: Using Facebook with an Advanced Spanish Class 2 years, 10 months ago · View
I joined Facebook sometime in early 2008 and by July I had become more than just a novice user and saw its potential beyond “friending” those I already knew and accepting the “friendships” of those with whom I was having my first amicable meeting through their request to join their network of friends. In experimenting with [...] - Load More
Thursday May 17th 2012
