July 8, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Isn’t it great to be in the library? (wherever that is) was a program presented by the Library & Information Technology Association at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA.

 

Joseph Janes, professor at the University of Washington shared his views on how the idea of the library has expanded and moved beyond traditional concepts such as physical spaces. How customers are in the library when they cross the digital threshold to access the online catalogs, library web pages, reference via IM sessions, and renew items online. 

Customers can be in the library anywhere and in anyway in which they interact with information organized, provided, and suppo...Read More

July 2, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

I was watching the news on the plane back to New York, after attending the ALA annual conference, when I learned that Ingrid Betancourt was free.

 

In 2002 Ingrid Betancourt was visiting a little town campaigning to become Colombia's President when she was kidnapped. That was the last thing the world knew about her. For many years people speculated about what had happened to Ingrid. She became a legend- a woman who gave her life for her country. Some people thought that she was alive, others that she no longer existed. Last year a video footage of Ingrid seating in the middle of the jungle and looking gaunt surfaced, and the world dared to be hopeful and wish for her to be free. Around the gl...Read More

July 1, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

REFORMA and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), hosted a beautiful celebration of life and Latino children's literature at the ALA conference in Anaheim. Writers and Illustrators of books in Spanish or of Latino interest were honored.

-from ALSC website:

The Pura Belpré Awa...Read More

June 27, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

I've got hold of a master resource to identify books about Latinos and also books for Spanish speakers. The Latino Voices Brochure is published by the Association of American Publishers. The brochure includes a list of small and large publishers and titles for all ages. Here I've included  a selected list of publishers included on the brochure. Take a look at the brochure today!

American Academy of Pediatrics
Business Plus
Celebra
Dial Books for Young Readers
DK Publishing
Grand Central Publishing
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Hyperion Books
Larousse
Little Brown & Company
Modern Language Association
New American Library
Random House Children's
Rayo
Rayo Children's
Rodale
St Martin's Press...Read More
Industries: Serving Spanish Speakers

June 24, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

This week, three of my friends told me that they were receiving treatment for their diabetes. I did not know my beloved friends had diabetes! This morning a colleague sent a link about a Spanish-language Consumer Guide for Oral Diabetes Medications. 

I decided to do a quick search about the subject and found out that the National Council of La Raza has a website about Diabetes Facts and Figures which includes a general analysis of the national situation:

-- Two million Latinos age 20 and older have type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
-- Latinos are 1.5 times more likely than non-Hispanic Whites to have Type 2 diabetes.
-- However, Mexican Americans

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Industries: Serving Spanish Speakers