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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Special Collections Curator – University of Texas at Austin 2 days, 6 hours ago · View
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: 2012 Election Results 1 week, 2 days ago · View
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 [...]
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Sign up for the May 16 Webinar: Collecting for Latin America & Spain 2 weeks, 5 days ago · View
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 [...] -
Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: New Curator of Special Collections at Tulane 3 weeks, 3 days ago · View
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 [...] -
Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: SALALMeros Making News at the Buenos Aires Book Fair 4 weeks, 1 day ago · View

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. -
Daisy Dominguez joined the group La Cuna: Question Forum 1 month ago · View
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: SALALM 2012 Elections 1 month ago · View
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: HAPI Internship 1 month ago · View
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 [...]
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Meet David Fernández, SALALM Scholarship Winner! 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
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 [...] -
Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Photographic Project Featured on NYT and SALALM57 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
Pablo Delano and Dario Euraque will speak about their work documenting Honduras’ cultures at SALALM 57.
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Daisy Dominguez commented on the blog post Question of the month: February 2012 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Spring 2012 Newsmakers 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
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 [...] -
Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Lorenzo García Vega Papers, 1969-2008 at Princeton University Library 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
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.
Lorenzo García Vega was born in 1926 in Jagüey Grande, in the [...] -
Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: FIU Libraries announces acquisition of important Cuban genealogy collection 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Brazil and the Lusophone Diaspora: Film Series and Exhibit Events at Indiana University 2 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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 [...] -
Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Scholarships available for “History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th-19th Centuries” 2 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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 [...]
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Winter 2011/2012 Newsmakers 3 months, 1 week ago · View
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 [...]
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Alan Moss | In Memoriam 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
It is with regret that we announce the death of Alan Moss, a former staff member of the Main Library of the Cave Hill Campus of The University of the West Indies, who was also very active in SALALM .Alan’s first contact with the University came through the then College of Arts and Science (the precursor to the Cave [...] -
Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Latin American and Caribbean Studies Librarian at UIUC 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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 [...]
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Daisy Dominguez wrote a new blog post: Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
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.
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Thursday May 17th 2012
