January 31, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

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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January 27, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

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:

January 23, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

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

January 22, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

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

January 19, 2009 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

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