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SALALM 2016 CONFERENCE THEME

 

“Nuestro norte es el sur”: Mapping Resistance and Resilience in Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian studies

 

May 9-13, 2016

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

 

The Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian regions have long been witness to great acts of resistance and resilience: from colonial heritage to democratization of the regions, the historical record is replete with widespread protests of abuses inflicted by the state and non-state actors, yet their open veins have not bled out. Many of the issues at stake in the resiliency of the regions are particularly visible in the context of globalization: from overlapping matters of ethnic and national identities in the cultural or political sphere, to neocolonialism in the economic sphere and gross imbalances of political power in the social sphere. SALALM 61’s theme will focus on the many ways in which individuals, organizations, institutions are facing globalizing trends in social, political, environmental and academic realms. Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies have proven resilient as a multi- and inter-disciplinary field, resisting direct assaults on its integrity by adapting and innovating. At stake in the resiliency of this field of area studies are matters of hegemony in North-South power dynamics, the rise of global and interdisciplinary studies, as well as the impact of the digital age on scholarship. In this framework, and borrowing from Joaquín Torres García, the title of the conference “Nuestro norte es el sur” is an invitation to consider and question the privileged position of the Global North in the academic discourse of the area, especially as that discourse engages with other disciplines against the background of global studies.

An examination of these topics can be framed in more specific terms by our recent professional endeavors as Latin American Studies librarians. Discussion at the Future of Area Studies Librarianship Workshop held at Indiana University in October 2013 addressed the fact that the focus on globalization in higher education requires a deep and broad understanding of all cultures and societies, which translates in a greater demand for international resources. What is the impact on globalized campuses and how will this fact influence the support for area and international collections and services?

This five-day conference will include three days of panel presentations, preceded by two days of round tables alongside our traditional business meetings. The round tables will provide a forum to continue the dialog of the workshop aforementioned and the round table “The Impact of Campus Internationalization on the Research Library” at SALALM 60 (2015). Because we want this conversation to permeate into discussions outside the realm of librarianship, the conference organizers will invite other stakeholders, e.g., area studies program administrators, faculty, doctoral students, and publishers to participate in SALALM 61. Special attention will be given to the foreseeable consequences of these trends in scholarly research, teaching, and librarianship, along with the strategies that librarians may develop in collaboration with other participants in the field to meet these challenges.

Each round table will consist of five invited individuals, each one representing one of the aforementioned stakeholders. Each table will focus on a given topic established by a set of questions prepared by the conference organizers. The dialogue will also embrace audience participation.

We are seeking for proposals for panels or panel presentations. Panels will include scholarly presentations related to the conference theme and will also include papers on practical issues of librarianship and archival management related to the topic.

Topics of discussion for panels and individual presentations may include, all within the context of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies:

• Overlapping matters of ethnic, racial and/or national identities in the cultural sphere.
• Neocolonialism in the economic sphere and the consequences for research libraries and archives.
• Hegemony in North-South dynamics and their effect in the publishing and library worlds.
• The influence of the digital age on scholarship in this area.
• The evolution of Global and International Studies.
• The resilience of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies within the context of globalization, its changes and innovations.

 

Interested presenters and panel organizers should contact Paloma Celis Carbajal, SALALM President, with proposals. Please include your name, institution, contact information, proposed title and abstract. The deadline to submit paper proposals is January 30, 2016.

Paloma Celis Carbajal, MA, MLS

Ibero-American Studies Bibliographer

212A Memorial Library

University of Wisconsin-Madison

728 State Street

Madison, WI 53703

Email: paloma.celiscarbajal[at]wisc.edu

 

For queries on local arrangements and book exhibits, please contact Miguel Valladares Llata, Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee.

Miguel Valladares Llata, MLS

Romance Languages Librarian

Room 408A Alderman Library

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22904

Email: mav4n[at]virginia.edu

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)

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. 

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.

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

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

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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