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12/18/07 - The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida will offer Library Travel Research Grants for summer 2008. As many as 12 awards of up to $750 each will be made to cover travel and living expenses. Awardees are expected to remain in Gainesville for at least one week and, following their stay, submit a brief (2-3 pp.) report on how their work at UF Libraries enriched their research project and offer suggestions for possible improvements of the Latin American Collection. Information on the UF Latin American Collection is available on the Internet at: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/lac. You can also e-mail Richard Phillips ricphil@uflib.ufl.edu, Director of the Latin American Collection, for further information. The deadline for all application materials is March 01, 2008. (cross-posted from LALA-L)

12/17/07 - UT Austin's Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection has a new blog entitled "free*the*books." The blog discusses issues surrounding the digitization of parts of the Latin American Collection, as a Google Library Partner.

12/06/07 - SALALM in the Blogosphere - ALZAR and the Bibliographic Instruction wiki highlighted on Cheryl Laguardia's blog for Library Journal.

12/06/07 - More than 25 SALALM librarians and at least 11 libreros attended the Guadalajara Book Fair (FIL). Salamistas were not only seeking novedades but also active in presentations to new ALA-FIL pass attendees as well as contributing to the Salon de Libro selection of recommened titles for libraries.

11/20/07 - Check out the updated course description for the California Rare Book School course, "The History of the Book in Hispanic America, 16th - 19th Centuries."

11/12/07 - SALAMISTA Claudia Cuevas, Current President of the Asociación Chilena de Bibiotecarios, opened the 12th Annual Conference of Chilean Librarians (October 24-26) in Santiago. Elected in December of 2005, her term runs until April 2008.

11/07/07 - Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant Program - Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the research collections. These Library Research Grants, which have a value of up to $2,500 each, are meant to help defray expenses incurred in traveling to and residing in Princeton during the tenure of the grant. The length of the grant will depend on the applicant's research proposal, but is ordinarily one month. Library Research Grants awarded in this academic year are tenable from May 2008 to April 2009, and the deadline for applications is 15 January 2008. Applicants are asked to submit a completed application form (http://www.princeton.edu/rbsc/fellowships/application.pdf), budget form (http://www.princeton.edu/rbsc/fellowships/budget_rev08152006a.pdf) and a research proposal not exceeding three pages in length. Applicants must also arrange for two confidential letters of recommendation to be sent directly to the Library Research Grants Committee at the address given below. The proposal should address specifically the relevance to the proposed research of unique resources found in the Princeton University Library collections. Awards will be made before 1 April 2008. Application materials and letters of recommendation are to be mailed toLibrary Research Grant Committee, Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544. Materials mailed to the committee mustbe postmarked no later than 15 January 2008. Facsimile transmissions may besent to (609) 258-2324. Electronic communications to the committee may be sent to loliveir@princeton.edu. Materials submitted by e-mail or facsimile must be received no later than 15 January 2008.  E-mail is the preferred method of submission. (cross-posted from LALA-L)

11/06/07 - Registration information for SALALM LIII- Information packets to be mailed in January 2008 with additional details. (cross-posted from LALA-L)

10/23/07 - Desde el 1986 SALALM ha ofrecido becas para colegas en America Latina que tengan interes en participar en el congreso anual de SALALM que en el 2008 se lleva a cabo en Nueva Orleans (30 de mayo-3 de junio). Los requisitos para las becas de Enlace estan disponibles en varios idiomas. La fecha limite es el 14 de diciembre (2007). Favor de pasar este mensaje a colegas que esten interesados.

10/23/07 - Please send any digital photos of SALALM events to the SALALM Webmaster for posting on the site.

10/21/07 - Collections statistics from 2005-2006 are available online. Libraries from around the world report on expenditures for Latin American Studies. The results were published in SALALM Newsletter 34:3 (December 2006), pp. 34-36.

10/10/07 - Spain's annual book fair, Liber 2007 (held in Barcelona, Oct 3-5), hosted several SALALM members from the United States and the United Kingdom. Those attending were able to visit the outdoor antiquarian book fair being held at the Paseo de Gracia. Lisbon and Madrid also witnessed book hunting excursions from eager SALALMistas not deterred by the high value of the Euro. Other cultural activities included visits to museums and an extensive tour of the Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya organized by our very own Lluis Agusti.

10/10/07 - More than 20 SALALM members attended the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference in Montreal, Canada (Sept 5-8). SALALMistas were present both as panelists and exhibitors. There were more than 1100 panels as well as 3 days of non-stop films/documentaries to chose from.

08/13/07 - New Page on Latin American Studies Special Collections - Students from the California Rare Book School August 2007 course "The History of the Book in Latin America, 16th-19th Centuries" created new resources page for Latin American Studies Special Collections. Taught by Dan Slive (William Reese Company) and David Szewczyk (The Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company), the class explored the history of printing in the New World.

08/07/07 - Alvaro J. Risso de Librería Linardi y Risso ha sido electo Presidente de la Camara Uruguaya del Libro. (cross-posted from LALA-L 08/07/07)

08/06/07 - Call for Papers: "Freedom and Liberty?: The Archival Record, Slavery, Abolition, Labour and Nationalism in the Caribbean" - Institute for Commonwealth Studies, University of London, October 15, 2007 (cross-posted from H-Caribbean 08/03/07)

07/11/07 - SALALM 2007 Keynote Speaker Alfredo Corchado wins Columbia University Journalism Prize - The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism today announced the 2007 winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean, honoring journalists who have covered the Western Hemisphere and, through their reporting and editorial work, have furthered inter-American understanding.  The 2007 winners are: Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief, the Dallas Morning News; Gary Marx, foreign correspondent, Chicago Tribune; Maria Teresa Ronderos, editorial advisor, Semana Magazine (Colombia); and Jose Vales, Latin American correspondent, El Universal (Mexico). (cross-posted from LALA-L 07/10/07)

06/27/07 - SALALM at ALA a Resounding Success - SALALM hosted our first booth at the American Library Association conference in Washington, D.C. Several new members signed up to join SALALM on the spot. We also worked to increase awareness of SALALM at the major library schools. (cross-posted from LALA-L 06/26/07)

06/21/07 - Call for Papers: Virtual Caribbeans - The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University, in conjunction with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, is pleased to announce Virtual Caribbeans, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana February 27 - March 1, 2008. (cross-posted from H-Net Caribbean 06/20/07)

06/19/07 - SALALM Booth at ALA - Contact Adan Griego for additional information about volunteering at the SALALM booth at ALA. (cross-posted from LALA-L 06/19/07)

06/19/07 - Open House at The Hispanic Division of the  Library of Congress - The Hispanic Division of the  Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/) invites you to an open house on Friday afternoon, June 22, from 2:00 to 4:00 in LJ240 (Jefferson Building). Please drop in to talk to our reference librarians and area studies specialists. The Hispanic Reading Room serves researchers studying Luso-Hispanic cultures throughout the world. It is a center for the study of the cultures and societies of the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, the Caribbean, and other areas where Spanish and Portuguese influence has been significant. The Library's Spanish and Portuguese collections are among the finest in the world. Sample this research facility's resources, including biographies of every Hispanic American in Congress from 1822 to the present, the Handbook of Latin American Studies, and the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape. Learn from specialists how the Division services these materials for researchers and librarians. The Hispanic Reading Room is rich with decorative Spanish motifs and graced by the famous Portinari murals. Staff will answer your questions about the collections and handouts will be available. (cross-posted from LALA-L 06/19/07)

06/14/07 - The History of the Book in Latin America class - California Rare Book School at UCLA is offering a week-long class on Latin American rare books, July 30 - August 3, 2007. The class will be taught by Daniel J. Slive of the William Reese Company and David Szewczyk of The Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company.

06/13/07 - John Wright Interviewed for America Reads Spanish - SALALM President, John B. Wright of BYU talks about SALALM and reading in Spanish with Rosana Ubanell of America Reads Spanish.

06/05/07 - Call for Papers: "Nuestra América in the U.S.? A U.S. Latino/a Studies Conference" - University of Kansas, Lawrence, February 8-9, 2008. This interdisciplinary conference adopts José Martí’s expansive hemispheric conception of "America" to explore implications of the growth of the U.S. Latino population at the cusp of the 21st century—a century that has seen Latinos/as become the largest ethnic minority in the United States. (cross-posted from LALA-L 06/05/07)

05/18/07 - Call for Papers: "A Changing Cuba in a Changing World" - Bildner Center/Cuba Project, March 12-14, 2008. Organized by the Bildner Center/Cuba Project (www.bildner.org), this international and interdisciplinary conference builds on the expertise of Cuba specialists at the City University of New York and participants in past Cuba Project conferences and seminars. (cross-posted from LALA-L 05/17/07)

05/15/07 - Call for Papers: "Conversations III: Aspects of Freedom" Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium 2007 - University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus Barbados, West Indies 9-10 August 2007. Due to various requests from potential contributors it has been agreed to extend the deadline for abstracts until May 31st. Read the extended Call for Papers. (cross-posted from H-Afro-Am 05/15/07)

05/03/07 - SALALM LIII will be in New Orleans, LA at the Hotel Monteleone - Read the official conference announcement for "Encounter, Engagement and Exchange: How Native Populations of the Americas Transformed the World."

05/02/07 - 52nd SALALM Conference a Success - Check out the official 2007 conference website.

05/02/07 - Fallece el gran poeta peruano José Watanabe - (cross-posted from LALA-L 04/26/07)

10/01/06 - The 52nd Annual SALALM Conference - BORDERS: OBSESSION, OBSTACLE, OPEN DOOR? hosted by the University of New Mexico convenes in Albuquerque (April 27-May 1, 2007)

08/31/06 - Obituary: Eduardo F. Lozano (1925-2006)

07/01/06 - Get Involved! Find out how to become a member of SALALM. ¡lo invitamos a que se haga socio de SALALM! pulse aquí