Some of you know that I had planned to visit Trinidad last week, and hoped to report back with fresh conference news. Unfortunately, my flight (Boston-New York) was cancelled and I never made it! I hope to reschedule very soon. Meanwhile, preparations for our conference are well advanced, and I’d like to share the following [...]

The Dartmouth College Library seeks an innovative, service focused professional to join a collaborative team in Research & Instruction Services, Baker-Berry Library, supporting faculty and students in the academic departments of French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, and interdisciplinary programs associated with Latin American studies. This librarian will provide liaison, education and collection management services [...]

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library invites applications for the position of Research and Instruction Librarian at The Latin American Library (LAL). The library seeks to build its professional staff by recruiting talented, energetic librarians interested in shaping the future of Tulane University and New Orleans. The LAL Research and Instruction Librarian will combine a strong service orientation [...]

Which Latin American statistical websites have you found most useful?

Archivist Responsibilities: Reporting to the Head of Special Collections, this position serves as the archivist for partner-based, collaborative archival collections, including the Carey C. Shuart Women’s Archives and Research Center (affiliated with the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Friends of Women’s Studies) and other humanities and social sciences collections. Manages a unit that functions collaboratively [...]

More then 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 [...]

You are cordially invited to the 57th annual meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) hosted by the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine to be held June 16-19, 2012 at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

I’ve just been assigned Latin America as part of my responsibilities. Where can I read an overview of acquisitions and collection development for the region?

Hi all, This is my first entry into the salalm blogosphere– and how appropriate that I am writing about SALALM’s digital future! I have posted a note to LALA-L describing my idea to form an ad hoc group within SALALM to explore ways to make our organization more electronic. Hopefully saving us some work and [...]

Greetings to the blog reading SALALMeros out there. The final  program for SALALM 54 is now available on the conference  website. It’s hard to believe the rough notes and lists I sketched out with Peter and Ricarda over cold lemonade in New Orleans has turned into this 32 page document. Now I need to clone myself so I [...]

 The SALALM Scholarship has been established to encourage professional and leadership development in Latin American and Caribbean Studies librarianship. To be awarded annually commencing in December 2011, the $1000 is for a master’s candidate in an archival studies or ALA-accredited library or information studies program. For more information, visit the SALALM Scholarship page .         [...]

Since returning from SALALM LVI in Philadelphia I have been busy with my colleagues working on the digitization of the Puerto Rican Civil Court Documents Collection. Thanks to the CRL’s LAMP award we were able to retain our digital photographer and start digitizing the collection right away. Because of the excellent workflow at the digital [...]

Sarah Aponte (CUNY Dominican Studies Institute) has published  “Dominican Related Dissertations in the U.S.: an Analytical Approach (1939-2009), Camino Real: Estudios de las hispanidades norteamericanas , 3, no. 4 (2011): 21-51. Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez Princeton University Former SALALM member Michael Hamerly ‘s Artes, Vocabularios, and Related Ecclesiastical Materials of Quichua/Quechua, Aymara, Puquina, and Mochica Published during the Colonial Period: a History and a [...]

Position held: Assistant Librarian, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University Library Collection development/subject areas: philosophy and world languages (including Spanish, Classical Studies, and German) Education: BA in philosophy and English (Seattle University), MLIS (University of Washington) Professional interests: information literacy and instruction, copyright Research projects: Currently co-designing a project that studies the effect of instruction on undergraduates’ ability to formulate more [...]

Jean Dickson , University at Buffalo Librarian Extraordinaire, began her Title F leave in early July as a prelude to her January, 2012 retirement.  We will plan an event honoring and celebrating Jean sometime in the fall.  Jean will be in her office in Lockwood on occasion, and will spend the next six months working on special [...]

I would like to congratulate our colleagues for organizing an interesting, efficient and enjoyable conference in Philadelphia this past May. The theme “ Preserving Memory: Documenting and Archiving Latin American Human Rights ” was timely and of interest to us all. Many excellent presentations were held, thanks to the work of our past president Nerea Llamas . Many thanks [...]

La Secretaría General de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales  (FLACSO) ha estado impulsando el proyecto de portal Enlace Académico Centroamericano , con el objetivo de crear una plataforma de encuentro e información de los temas de interés para los cientistas sociales, docentes y estudiantes centroamericanos o sobre Centroamérica.  A la fecha llevamos dos años de trabajo [...]