We are pleased to announce the launch of the Mapping of Internationally-Funded Citizen Security Projects in Central America , a joint project of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which tracks and documents international assistance for citizen security in Central America. The Mapping Study and the online platform, the first of its [...]

The Latin American Collections in the Special & Area Studies Collections Department, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida are proud to announce the online launch of the Diario de Pernambuco , starting with the first issue on November 7, 1825 through March 1863. The Diario de Pernambuco is acknowledged as the oldest newspaper in circulation in Latin America.  The [...]

  D. Ryan Lynch has an A.B. in Latin American History and Hispanic Literature and Culture from Brown University, an M.A. in Latin American History from Emory University, and is currently completing an M.S.I.S. in Library and Information Services at the University at Albany, State University of New York.  Ryan has a professional background in academic [...]

The Nominations Committee would like to extend its congratulations to our newly elected SALALM officials. El Comité de Nominaciones quiere felicitar a los nuevos representantes de SALALM.   VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT ELECT (Vicepresidente/Presidente Electo): Luis Gonzalez (Indiana University) EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS AT LARGE (Miembros del Comité Ejecutivo): Melissa Gasparotto (Rutgers University) Sócrates Silva (University of California at Santa Barbara)   [...]

Jennifer Osorio is the Social Sciences and Humanities Team Leader at UCLA’s Young Research Library. She serves as the liaison to a number of departments including English and American Literature,  Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies. Since the Fall of 2011, she has also been the Interim Librarian for Spanish and Portuguese and Latin American Studies.   Jill Westen received her MLIS from the University [...]

The “Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Fifty Years of Brazilian Cinema” film series is coming to Indian University April 14-21, 2013 . The film series is part of a number of events honoring Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos at Indiana University. In 2012, dos Santos received Indiana University’s Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion, the highest honor for individuals [...]

Angela Carreño (New York University) has been awarded the Coutts Innovation Award in Electronic Resources Management  for her leadership in developing e-book models to serve both local institutions and consortia. Her efforts have also increased the availability of e-books from Spain and Latin America. ¡Felicidades, Angela! Ruby Gutierrez (HAPI) recently published an article on back-of-the-book indexing in Latin American [...]

This past January Tony Harvell retired after almost 38 years  as an information professional.  His career as a Government Documents librarian started at Ohio University in 1975, later at Miami University in Ohio.  He worked at the University of Florida (1981-1983) and later at the University of Miami (1983-1991). While at the University of Miami, [...]

Dear Friends of the Cuban Heritage Collection, We write to you to inform you of the retirements of two of the University of Miami Libraries’ most distinguished Professors and colleagues Lesbia O. Varona, Associate Professor and Esperanza B. de Varona, Professor and the Esperanza Bravo de Varona Chair of the Cuban Heritage Collection. Both have informed [...]

¡Felicidades a los SALALMeros Peter Johnson y Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez de Princeton por este reconocimiento de sus labores!

It is with great sadness that we share news of the death of Barbara Valk, founder of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) , Librarian Emeritus of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and pioneer in Latin Americanist librarianship. Barbara graduated from Smith College and received her M.A. in Library Science from Rosary College. She began [...]

The Bodleian Library is hosting an exhibit entitled Mexico: from picture to print from February 23 through March 31, 2013. The exhibit was curated by SALALM member Joanne Edwards, Subject Librarian for Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, and Clive Griffin, Emeritus Fellow in Spanish, Trinity College who will be giving a lecture this Thursday, March 14th [...]

  On January 17, 2013, Tulane’s Newcomb Art Gallery opened a new trio of exhibits that showcase Mexican art and artists.  An article about the upcoming show appears in Tulane’s New Wave . Jewelry designs by William Spratling, Margot van Voorhies Carr, Sigfrido Pineda, Fredrick Davis, and Los Castillo were selected by New Orleans designer, Mignon Faget, from [...]

HAPI is excited to announce that it is now compatible with the open source citation manager Zotero. Zotero software is a research tool that allows for the storage, organization and analysis of citations using Firefox browsers or using Zotero Standalone connectors to Chrome and Safari browsers. These citations can be exported as formatted references for notes and [...]

Bruce Bachand is an anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Arizona) who is looking to apply his subject area knowledge of Mesoamerica, Spanish language ability, and love of libraries and archival research to a productive and fulfilling career as a librarian-scholar for an academic library. He is finishing his master’s degree in Library and Information science at the [...]

The University of Minnesota Libraries has begun digitizing Spanish American texts of a political nature in its collections,  The Spanish American Political Texts . At this point this digital library is small (6 titles), but the plan is to enlarge it. If you have any difficulties accessing it, feel free to contact me at r-tarr@umn.edu.   Rafael E. Tarragó Librarian [...]