Call for Applications: Dan C. Hazen SALALM Fellowship

We are excited to announce a call for applications for the Dan C. Hazen SALALM Fellowship with a submission deadline of December 15, 2015. Eligible applicants must be full-dues paying SALALM members for at least four years at time of submission, as verified by the SALALM Secretariat, with a documented engagement with activities in the organization through active participation.

 The goal of this fellowship opportunity is to strengthen our junior, mid and senior status members through the award of partial financial support for either scholarly research or professional development. The Fellowship Review Committee will evaluate each submission and awards will be announced February 1, 2016.

We believe this new initiative in SALALM reflects accurately the spirit and vision that Dan brought to the profession during the four decades that he enriched, as well as enlivened, our discussions and proceedings. For more information regarding eligibility, criteria, and how to submit an application please visit:

http://salalm.org/about/scholarships-and-awards/dan-c-hazen-salalm-fellowship/

Any questions about the application process can be directed to: ptj4512@gmail.com; questions regarding membership to SALALM can be directed to: salalm@tulane.edu

– Dan C. Hazen SALALM Fellowship Task Force

(Angela Carreño, Fernando Acosta Rodríguez, Alison Hicks, Daniel Schoorl, Mary Jo Zeter, Peter T. Johnson , ex officio: Paloma Celis Carbajal, Hortensia Calvo, Daisy Domínguez, Jesús Alonso Regalado)

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SALALM Membership/Committee Preference Forms 2015-16; Formularios renovación de membresía y comités 2015-2016

Dear all/Estimados/Prezados todos:

2. Ir a la Página Web de SALALM en  http://salalm.org/application/ para obtener estos formularios. Imprimirlos, llenarlos y enviarlos con el pago correspondiente a la siguiente dirección. Puede enviar estos formularios a la dirección facilitada, o enviarlos por  fax al número proporcionado.

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Summer 2015 Newsmakers!

Natalie Baur, University of Miami, has received a Fulbright-García Robles award to work on a digital preservation research project. Read full announcement here.

Rafael Tarragó, University of Minnesota, recently received the President’s Award for Outstanding Service, one of the most prestigious honors awarded by this institution.

Suzanne Schadl, University of New Mexico, is the 2015 Medina Award recipient. Schadl received the award for her paper “Cite Globally, Analyze Locally: Citation Analysis from a Local Latin American Studies Perspective”

Barbara Alvarez, University of Michigan, recent article “Publish, not Perish: Supporting Graduate Students as Aspiring Authors“, published in Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2(3) was named in the LIRT Top Twenty Instruction articles of 2014.

Melissa Gasparotto, Rutgers University, received the  Best Article in Practical Academic Librarianship Award for “Search Engine Optimization for the Research Librarian: A Case Study Using the Bibliography of U.S. Latina Lesbian History and Culture”, published in volume 4, issue 1 of Practical Academic Librarianship.

T-Kay Sangwand, an Archivist, Human Rights Documentation Initiative; Librarian for Brazilian Studies at the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas, Austin is honored as one of the Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers 2015. 

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Welcome, new members!

Jessie Christensen is the Receiving Section Supervisor in Monographic Acquisitions at Brigham Young University. She manages receiving for all monographs, including firm orders and approvals, as well as some copy cataloging functions. Jessie earned a BA in Spanish Translation and English and an MA in Spanish Literature from BYU, and is a second-year MLIS student at San Jose State University.

Christopher Lutz is a student of Latin American History (B.A., Antioch College; M.A. and Ph.D. in LA History and Comparative Tropical History, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) and  co-founder of CIRMA (Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica) in Antigua, Guatemala in 1978. First a small library, it has expanded over the decades to include a specialized library and rare book collection, a large fototeca of photos from national and international sources, and an Archivo Histórico of newspapers, private archives and documentary collections, not in competition with public repositories, focusing more on the contemporary period than earlier ones. CIRMA’s focus is on scanning  out-of print and rare books, photographic and documentary collections to make them more accessible  to a wider national and international public.

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SALALM LX in the News

Estimados SALALMistas,

Our colleague Adán Griego, Chair of the Membership Committee, has been busy publicizing the upcoming SALALM LX Conference in social media outlets.  See his most recent post in the Facebook group page.

In addition, the Local Arrangements Committee has been using conventional media to publicize the conference.  Please take note of the column ‘SALALM reaches a new milestone’ that appears in the new issue (May 2015) of College & Research Libraries News.  I think the full text is available on the journal website. 

The complete citation of the column appears below:

“SALALM reaches a new milestone,” College & Research Libraries News 76, no. 5 (May 2015): 241.

 Saludos cordiales,

Luis

Luis A. González
President, SALALM (2014-2015)
Indiana University
May 2015

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SALALM LX Preliminary Program

The preliminary program for SALALM LX is now available here. Please see the conference website for more information: http://salalm.org/Conf/

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Carlos Olave appointed to Head of the Hispanic Reading Room of the Library of Congress

Carlos Olave, Head of the South America Section of the Latin America, Western European Division (ALAWE) of the Library of Congress, was selected to head the Hispanic Reading Room.  The former head, Everette Larson, who retired on September 30, 2014, served in that position for twenty years and twenty years before that as Reference Librarian, Area Specialist for Spain, Catalonia and Andorra, and webmaster.

Carlos came to the Library in 1988 from Princeton University  to catalog French materials.  He is a native speaker of Spanish who is also fluent in Portuguese, French and Italian—all languages used in the Hispanic Division.  At the University of Pittsburgh he earned a BA in Spanish and Portuguese with a minor in Latin American Studies and a Masters in Library Science.  From New York University he earned an MA in Spanish and Portuguese Literature.    At the Library  he cataloged Latin American books and periodicals from 1989 to 2001.   Then until mid-2008 he was a Reference Librarian in the Hispanic Reading Room, where he also assisted Ieda Siqueira Wiarda, the Luso-Brazilian Specialist, who retired on January 2015.   Carlos taught cataloging in Brasilia in Portuguese at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State and also the Library of Congress Rio Office.  He also taught cataloging in Argentina.   He starts on May 18, 2015.

In addition to being the Head of the Reading Room, Carlos will also perform the duties of Luso-Brazilian Area Specialist.

Georgette Dorn
Chief
Hispanic Division
Library of Congress

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Meet the Spring 2015 SALALM Scholarship Winners!

Alda Migoni is in her second year of graduate school at University of California, Los Angeles where she was awarded a graduate opportunity fellowship her first year. Alda is currently an ARL Diveristy Scholar as part of their Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce. She is pursuing a master’s in Latin American Studies and will master’s of Library and Information Science.

As an undergraduate at the University of Redlands, Alda spent a semester abroad in Peru. In Cusco, Alda developed her passion for preservation of oral histories and research on Latin American community organizing. Her professional interests include cultural heritage preservation, digital humanities, and reference. Alda works as a reference assistant at UCLA’s Powell library, where she provides research assistance as well as instruction on access to patrons. Alda also works with UCLA’s Portuguese and Spanish Department building and assessing their collection for a new reading room. She is currently pursuing a concentration in archives.

Ashley Larson is a first-year master’s degree student in UCLA’s Library and Information Science program. Originally from Nebraska, Ashley moved to California and earned her bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fullerton, before heading to Vanderbilt University where she graduated in 2014 with an MA in Latin American Studies.

Ashley currently holds two positions at UCLA, splitting time between the Lorinne Lydeen Library in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI). At HAPI, she indexes journal articles for the benefit of students and researchers with an interest in Latin American topics. Additionally, she has led special projects, such as usability testing to validate the success of the new Web site launched in the summer of 2014. At Lydeen Library, Ashley focuses on the organization, evaluation, and assessment of the new library’s collection. Outside of work, she serves as vice-president of the UCLA Special Libraries Association (SLA) student chapter and as treasurer of the Information Studies Student Governing Board.

Prior to UCLA, she worked for Vanderbilt’s Center for Latin American Studies, performing a wide range of duties from event coordination to grant writing. In her second year, she worked under the direction of the Latin American and Iberian Bibliographer at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, where she assisted with various collection development and research tasks. Outside of her assistantship, she served as the Project Coordinator for Conversations/Conversas, a collaborative project platform geared to facilitate artistic exchange and scholarly research between the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University and the School of Visual Art and Communications at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. In this capacity, she coordinated artist visits between Nashville and São Paulo, bridged communication between members, and served as the group’s documentarian.

Her research interests are divided between two area foci: Brazil and Guatemala. At Vanderbilt, she explored the convergence of Brazilian culinary culture and national identity in the early twentieth century, which culminated in “Serving a National Myth: Visions of Gastronomy in Gilberto Freyre’s Brazil”, a paper she presented at the 2014 Atlantic World Foodways conference at UNC-Greensboro. In this paper, she deconstructed the romanticized food ideology set forth by Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre in his seminal work, Casa Grande e Senzala, and argued that Freyre encouraged Brazilian cultural nationalism through cuisine while criticizing the prevailing theory of white supremacy. In 2013, she spent two months abroad researching Brazilian culinary culture in Recife, Brazil at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE).

A second interest cultivated during her graduate career involves the translation of K’iche’ Maya cultural heritage materials. At Vanderbilt, she completed a two-year program in K’iche’ Maya, which focused on the translation of colonial texts, such as the the Popol Wuj and the Rabinal Achi, and modern stories from the University of New Mexico’s K’iche’ Maya Oral History Project. In the summer of 2014, Ashley had the opportunity to spend six weeks in Guatemala to enhance her K’iche’ language skills and immerse herself in the culture by attending the Mayan Language Institute.

Upon graduation, Ashley hopes to combine her experiences and education in both Library and Information Science and Latin American Studies to pursue a career that strikes a balance between both disciplines, ultimately serving as a collection development specialist or subject liaison at a major research institution or special library.

Talía Guzmán González is a graduate student at the University of Maryland’s iSchool pursuing a Master’s in Library Science degree. She is an intern at the Smithsonian Latino Center working with the director of Public Programs and Exhibitions, researching partnership projects between the SLC and the DC Public Libraries. In 2014 she was a fellow of the Association of Research libraries Career Enhancement Program and participated in an internship at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she worked with Barbara Alvarez on collection development, instruction, reference services, and the creation of LibGuides on Brazilian Studies and Lusophone Africa.

Talía has a Ph.D. in Portuguese Language and Brazilian literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010). Her dissertation is titled “Men at the Edge: Marginal(ized) Masculinities and Male Friendship in Late XIX and Early XX-Century Brazilian Novels”. She has published articles, translations and book reviews in the main journals in the field, as well as delivered conference presentations. Before pursuing the MLS degree, Talía was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Portuguese Language, Brazilian literature and culture, and Latin American Studies at the University of Maryland, where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses.

As a graduate student at the iSchool she has researched topics related to information and human rights in Brazil, international librarianship, and archival studies. After completing her degree, Talia plans to work as a subject specialist at an academic library or special collections library where she can combine library and archival work.

Tags: Alda Migoni, Ashley Larson, SALALM Scholarship winners, Talía Guzmán González
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SALALM Election Bios

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