Selection of Collection Development articles for librarians and bookbuyers spanning a wide range of subjects from Críticas
A View From The Outside by Rafael Ocasio, Agnes Scott Coll., Decatur, GA, 11/1/2008
Interest in exploring current conditions in Latin American societies has produced numerous documentaries. More
A View From The Outside
by Rafael Ocasio, Agnes Scott Coll., Decatur, GA - 11/01/2008
Interest in exploring current conditions in Latin American societies has produced numerous documentaries.
More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University December 23, 2008 Christmas tamales, Christmas tacos
If there's anything on earth that can counterbalance the psychic pain of having yet a... More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University October 28, 2008 Halloween parades & los gatos black
If you were to google the phrase Halloween parade and plot the results on a map, it w... More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University October 17, 2008 New graphics and PSAs to promote bibliotecas
The American Library Association and Spanish-language broadcasting colossus Univision... More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University June 28, 2008 Ruében Martínez redux
In case our story a few weeks ago wasn't enough to get all you Anaheim visitors over ... 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...