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Premio Herralde Goes to Mexico’s Daniel Sada by Aída Bardales, 11/1/2008 9:00:00 AM
On Monday, November 3, Mexican writer Daniel Sada was unanimously declared winner of the XXVI Premio Herralde de Novela, one of the most prestigious literary prizes awarded by a Spanish publisher, for his novel Casi nunca (“Almost Never”). More
Gioconda Belli Wins Premio Sor Juana
by Jessica Bermúdez - 11/01/2008
Nicaraguan poet and author Gioconda Belli’s El infinito en la palma de la mano (“Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand”; Rayo, 2008) was declared winner of this year’s Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, organized by the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, or FIL.
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2008 Mora Award Goes to Two Libraries
by Lynn Blumenstein, Library Hotline - 11/01/2008
This year’s Estela and Raúl Mora Award went to two library systems for promoting El día de los niños/El día de los libros (“Children’s Day/Books Day”) on April 30. The Riverside County Library System (RCLS), CA, and the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (PLCMC), NC, each will receive $1000 and a plaque commemorating their efforts.
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Constructing Duomo Ediciones
by Adriana V. López - 11/01/2008
With huge corporate publishing houses like Planeta, Random House Mondadori, and Santillana ruling over Spain’s recent market, there was room for a new, but different kind of house to join the scene. Duomo, according to its appointed editorial director, Valerie Miles, “is like an old traditional publishing house, where the authors come first.
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Bejarano to B&T; Océano Added to B&T Catalog
by Aída Bardales - 11/01/2008
Baker & Taylor (B&T) has hired Laura Bejarano, formerly with Brodart, as their Spanish-language Sales Specialist. In the newly created position, Bejarano will work closely with librarians to help build their Spanish-language collections.
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Sneak Peek—FIL Guadalajara 2008
by Aída Bardales - 11/01/2008
The 2008 Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (Guadalajara International Book Fair, or FIL), the most important event for the world’s Spanish-language book market, will take place November 29–December 7. This year also marks the inauguration of recently expanded exhibition halls. The changes serve to better accommodate the estimated 500,000 fairgoers and to offer more exposu...
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Puerto Rican Community Library Receives National Medal
by Lynn Blumstein, Library Journal - 10/01/2008
Awarded by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in coordination with the White House, the National Medal for Museum and Library Service is the nation’s highest honor. This year, five libraries and five museums have won the award, including Puerto Rico’s Jane Stern Dorado Community Library (JSDCL).
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Capstone Acquires Heinemann-Raintree
School Library Journal, 9/23/2008 - 10/01/2008
Capstone Publishers, a publisher of children’s books, including bilingual titles, for school and public libraries, has acquired the assets of the Heinemann-Raintree library reference imprints from the international media company Pearson.More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University January 28, 2009 Thanks for eight wonderful years
In early 2001 some of us were thrilled to hear of the launch of a major new magazine ... More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University January 4, 2009 Immigration jail house rock
Here's an appalling picture of the USA that makes it look as if the lower 48 are affl... More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University November 1, 2008 El Malcriado: A key UFW newspaper now archived
This is a fine time of year to think about the ones who have prec... More
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez—No Small Feat
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, the Cuban novelist who won this year’s Premio Alfaguara de Novela, has been traveling nonstop. His book tour brought him to New York City this past May, where he met with reporters eager to interview him on his latest accomplishment.
A place of refuge
In this issue’s cover story, Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Díaz recounts how the library helped him discover a world he wouldn’t have known otherwise and how for him, as an immigrant child, the library was a place—and a concept—he never could have imagined. Some Hispanics, like Díaz, who was newly arrived from the Dominican Republic, will dig right in and...
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