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1. Día de los muertos,
online
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The favorite syncretic celebration in the Americas has established
an impressive web presence, with sites that could help your library
develop a nice display of its own. Mexico Connect's fabulous
site features accounts of diverse observances, recipes, and wonderful
images at http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/daydeadindex.html
Another eye-catching site, this one put up by the
Arizona Republic newspaper, recounts some of the lore and
history of the celebration: http://www.azcentral.com/rep/dead/
A site for educators, with lesson plans and age-appropriate
activities, is available thanks to Flaco's alma mater Northern Arizona
University: http://star.ucc.nau.edu/FLI/DDLM/index.html
And if those sites aren't what you're looking for, try an
extensive index of Day of the Dead links at http://daphne.palomar.edu/muertos/muertoslinks.htm
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2. Trejo Foster Foundation Institute in WI next July
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Contact: Jane Pearlmutter jpearl@slis.wisc.edu
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT/CALL FOR PRESENTERS
The Fifth National Trejo Foster Foundation Institute on Hispanic
Library Education will be held July 20-22, 2001 at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. This year's theme, Bridging Borders: Building
Hispanic Library Education and Services in a Global Perspective,
will focus on:
- Building bridges and networks needed for recruitment
of Hispanic library and information professionals
- The role of border-crossing technologies to enrich
information delivery and discovery: digital libraries, the Internet,
and distance education
- Bridging the digital divide and enhancing library
service to Hispanic communities
- Sharing across national borders to enrich Hispanic
library education in the Americas
Both library educators and librarians with a commitment
to creating a more diverse profession will want to attend.
To suggest a program or speaker, or to be put on the mailing list
for more information, contact:
Jane Pearlmutter,
Director of Continuing Education,
UW-Madison School of Library & Information Studies,
600 N. Park Street,
Madison, WI 53706,
608-262-6398,
jpearl@slis.wisc.edu
The Institute is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Library & Information Studies and the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Library & Information Science.
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3. Just out: _Latino USA_, the cartoon history book
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You've probably seen the riotous cartoons of Lalo Alcaraz, and if
you've been watching Spanish-language TV you might know about his
recent run-in with Emilio Estefan. The great satirista
was in the neighborhood last night to sign copies of Latino
USA: A Cartoon History which he he illustrated alongside the
text of author Ilan Stavans, who's an Amherst College professor
and winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Latino Literature
Prize. You can learn more about this new title (Basic Books;
ISBN: 0-465-08221-1) at http://www.basicbooks.com/ and you can explore
the wild comic mind of Lalo at his www.pocho.com
website.
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4. Dewey Decimal translation coming online
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Check the PLUS site over the next several days for a translation
of Dewey classification system (down to the third summary, i.e.
the thousand sections) that is slowly coming along as Flaco develops
carpal tunnel syndrome. http://skipper.gseis.ucla.edu/students/bjensen/html/plus/ddc/00.htm
Additionally, don't overlook the Oakland Public
Library/San Francisco Public Library Spanish Subject Headings available
at the Bibliotecas Para La Gente site: http://clnet.ucr.edu/library/bplg/sujetos.htm
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