Special Collections Curator
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Library
The University of Texas Libraries – The University of Texas at Austin

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 [...]

Registration 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 [...]

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.

Our very own Adán Griego (Stanford University), Hortensia Calvo (Tulane University), and Alvaro Risso (Librería Linardi y Risso) have made the list of top 50 most influential professionals at the Buenos Aires Book Fair. Read more here.

SALALM Candidates Bios.

Site Description: The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) is an award-winning online bibliographic database which provides access to information from and about Latin America, the Caribbean basin, the US-Mexico border region, and Latinos in the United States.  The index includes complete bibliographic citations and subject indexing for articles, book reviews, original literary works, documents, and other [...]

David Férnandez is the SALALM Scholarship winner of $1,000 for the 2012 spring semester. Many thanks to our anonymous donor who made this award possible. Peter Johnson Scholarship Committee   David Fernández was born in Venezuela, and moved to Canada in 2004. He is a master’s student in Library Science, Book History and Print Culture at the [...]

Pablo Delano and Dario Euraque will speak about their work documenting Honduras’ cultures at SALALM 57.
 
Lynn M. Shirey
Harvard University

Sarah Aponte (CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives and Library) was honored at the 9th Dominican Women Writers’ Book Fair held March 23 – 25, 2012. On February 15, 2012, Patricia Figueroa (Brown University) launched a new blog called Nuevas referencias: retratos de nuevos autores hispanohablantes . It is dedicated to drawing attention to newer Spanish-language authors. Jana Krentz , formerly of [...]

Princeton’s Manuscripts Division has recently added the papers of Lorenzo García Vega to its extensive collection of archives, manuscripts and correspondence by Latin American writers and intellectuals.  A detailed description and  finding aid is already available.

FIU Libraries announces acquisition of important Cuban genealogy collection.

 

Two major events showcasing Brazilian and Lusophone history and culture are taking place at Indiana University-Bloomington during the Spring 2012 semester. The “Cinema Maldito” Film Series runs February 23-24 at the Indiana University Cinema.  The marginal, or underground, film movement was a vibrant example of the independent, auteur cinema that emerged in Brazil in the [...]

The scholarship deadline for the California Rare Books School’s week-long “History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th-19th Centuries” course, which several SALALM members have attended in the past, is June 15th, 2012.  Read more about it below!   History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th-19th Centuries August 6 – 10, 2012 California Rare [...]

Miguel Valladares , formerly of Dartmouth College, has accepted the position as Librarian for Romance Languages at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, beginning on February 20. Felicidades, Miguel! Meagan Lacy (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University) has published “The Virtues of a Committed Dilettante: Embracing Nonexpert Expertise” in College and Research Libraries News , February 2012, 73 (2). David Block (University of [...]

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Librarian Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Library Administration University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   Position Available: Position available immediately. This is a 100%, twelve-month, tenure-system appointment. Duties and Responsibilities: The University Library seeks a dynamic individual to provide subject expertise and leadership for the interdisciplinary field of Latin American and Caribbean Studies with particular focus on the social [...]

Recently, a large digital collection of Latin American and Latino artwork and related primary sources became freely accessible online. Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art consists of 2,000 documents from Argentina, Mexico and the American Midwest and is set to expand. Read and listen to more about it here.