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Dear Ms. Fialkoff and Mr. Shank,
It is with deep regret that Reforma received the news about the closing of Críticas. For the last eight years, the publication has been an extremely valuable tool in the promotion of Latino literature and Spanish language reading materials in the United States.
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I was instantly hooked on Críticas. So were many other readers and contributors who loved the work t...Read More
Margarita Ingle, author of The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom received one of four Newbery Honor Awards given by the American Library Association (ALA) at its Midwinter Conference in Denver, CO. She is the first Latina to receive such an honor. Ms. Ingle also received the 2009 Pura Belpre Author Award.
As per ALA’s news release:
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This week's story features Gabriela and Paco Delatorre who spoke at the Fond du Lac library about moving to the foot of Lake Winnebago from Texas five years ago and establishing a successful business ...Read More
Generations on Line (GoL) is an internet literacy program developed for people who are being left behind by this communication technology. The program is a self-teaching tutorial that uses large type, plain language, familiar images and on-screen instructions to help a novice internet user quickly master the basic elements of the internet.
For libraries, it can serve two purposes. It can be used in a class by an instructor to teach basic internet proficiency, or it can be used independently by library patrons to learn and use the internet. It is a valuable adjunct to libraries, especia...Read More
Medline Plus has launched a new magazine in Spanish. Well, it is a bilingual publication with articles coming in English on one side of the page, and in Spanish on the other side. Fabulous!
The topics on the quarterly publication mirror those on the Medline Plus English-only magazine. Readers will be able to find information about cancer, diabetes, and global health in Spanish! I see this magazine as a tremendous help to provide up-to-date information to customers at Health Resource Centers and Health Libraries in...Read More
Her new documentary from Impacto Films is about the littlest victims of the far-from-imaginary line that is the US-Mexico border. Children in No Man's Land/Niños en tierra de nadie opens with scenes from Nogales, the twin cities that straddle the Arizona-Sonora bord...Read More
I recently had the pleasure of reading an issue of the Primera Revista Latinoamericana de Libros (PRL) and was pleasantly surprise with the quality of the articles (I was not aware of this type of magazine!). Every issue covers a wide variety of topics such as current affairs, literature, history, and biographies. Regular contributors include renowned scholars like the brilliant Ilan Stavans from Amherst College.
I read the October/November 2008 issue featuring articles and reviews of books about the slave trade, religion and Mexico, and the story of Latinos in Hollywood. I can say that reading articles in my...Read More
There may be no activists quite like public library activists, so last week saw a colorful public protest ("Great street theater," one local reporter raved) over director Siobhan Reardon's coping...Read More
No dry theoretical document, this. Each of its eight principles is illustrated with two real-life examples: one from the library world and one from the rest of the world. The authors even manage to mention PCUN, the groundbreaking agricultural workers' un...Read More
REFORMA All Committees I Saturday, January 24, 8:00-10:00 am
REFORMA All Committees II Saturday, January 24, 10:30 am -12:00 pm
REFORMA Party Saturday, January 24at 8:00 p.m.
El Centro Su Teatro
4725 High Street
Denver, CO 80216
False cognates are used for fun and profit. Sad to say, con artists in the US prey on some Spanish speakers' confusion about what a notary can and cannot do. The American Bar Association even prepared a document about that scam, "The Dangers of 'N...Read More
