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1. Looking
for Spanish-language video vendors
From: Amanda Six McKeraghan amanda.mckeraghan@ci.corvallis.or.us
Hi Bruce,
The Corvallis-Benton County Public
Library in Oregon is trying to build a Spanish language video collection.
Do you have a vendor you could recommend? Our library doesn't
have a credit card so we can't buy anything online and we're having
a hard time finding a catalog with good collections. Thanks for
any help you can provide (and for the great SOL newsletter!)
Amanda Six McKeraghan
Extension Services Librarian
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
Corvallis, OR 97330
phone: 541-766-6792
FAX : 541-766-6744
amanda.mckeraghan@ci.corvallis.or.us
2. New selection aid: Críticas
A new and ambitious effort to offer English-language
coverage of Spanish-language materials is now in a magazine near
you, if you get Library Journal, Publishers Weekly,
or School Library Journal. The quarterly publication called
Criticas, with its reviews, distributor news, and other
tools for librarians, should be a big help as you work to develop
your Spanish-language collection.
3. What's your favorite Spanish dictionary
for junior high schoolers?
From: Anne Miller <anne.m.miller@ci.eugene.or.us>
Got a recommendation for an español - español dictionary appropriate
for middle schoolers? A local school has asked me for one.
Anne Miller
Eugene Public Library
4. Vendor for kids' and YA materials
Mariuccia Iaconi Book Imports, Inc.of San Francisco
specializes in Spanish-language materials. You'll find a big selection
and a well-organized catalog at http://www.mibibook.com/tabofcon.html
5. SOL's own madrina
seeks your programming/outreach tips
From: Connie J. Bennett <connieb@ccrls.org>
Subject: any ideas?
I'm putting together a list of Websites on programming and outreach
to the Latino community for an OLA preconference - do you have any
good sites you'd like to suggest?
Thanks for your ideas,
Connie
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Connie J. Bennett, Director
Silver Falls Library District
410 South Water Street
Silverton, Oregon 97381
Voice (503) 873-6513
Fax (503) 873-6227
6. BBC enhances its Spanish-language news
site
Last week the British Broadcasting Corporation introduced
its remodeled news site in Spanish, where your users can find news
from around the world (including a RealAudio interview with Subcomandante
Marcos) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/news/
or www.bbcmundo.com
7. UNESCO's Public Library Manifesto
From: José Guadalupe Cruz López pp3160@yahoo.com
> Hello flaco
> Mi nombre es José Guadalupe Cruz de la Ciudad de México necesito
el manifiesto de la unesco para bibliotecas> públicas. Tengo
el de 1994, y quiero el actual
Hello, José!
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/libraries/manifestos/libraman.html
(English)
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/libraries/manifestos/libraman_es.html
(Spanish)
[Flaco promises to update this link on the PLUS
site...if he survives Finals Week]
8. NPR report on immigrant education, with
a twist
Morning Edition yesterday featured a story
about a "cultural traffic school for Latino immigrants"
that 12 Colorado counties are using to orient arrestees on the workings
of the, uh, "justice" system. Hear the five-minute report
in RealAudio at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20010317.wesat.05.ram
9. CNN story: "U.S. sees big increase
in Hispanic population"
Despite the notorious uncorrected undercount, new
Census figures show larger-than-expected growth in the U.S. Hispanic
population, now numbered at 35.3 million, or 12.5 percent of the
U.S. total. This represents a growth of nearly 60 percent over the
last decade. Read about it at www.cnn.com
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