Analysing La Cuna

Bridging Physical, Virtual and Hybrid Spaces

If anyone wants to follow my presentation, or see the slides, they are available online.

Resources Mentioned in the Pecha Kucha

As usual, SALALM has me frantically jotting down ideas and resources as they get shared by colleagues on panels. Because there are so many excellent concurrent panels, I wanted to share some of these for those of you who may not have been able to attend yesterday's first (of many, I hope!) Pecha Kucha.

Katherine McCann (LoC) had a variety of suggestions for finding translations and reviews of translations:
The Complete Review: A Literary Saloon and Site of Review
(Contains Index of Latin and South American Literature)
World Literature Today
Open Letter
Words Without Borders

Kent Norsworthy of LANIC highlighted some of their projects:
UTLANIC is on Twitter
Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA)
Latin American Electronic Data Archive (LAEDA)

Daisy Dominguez presented on her experiences with Twitter. If you tweet, use #Salalm55 to tweet about the Conference. She invites you to connect with her at @daisilla

Martha Kelehan mentioned a number of resources to help you create data visualizations:
GapMinder
Google Motion Charts
VUE (concept mapping software)

Daniel Schoorl also mentioned a number of ways to visualize data in his presentation on the Statistical Abstract of Latin America
Many Eyes
GeoCommons
Ushahidi
Social Explorer

In Orchid Mazurkiewicz's presentation on federated searching and Latin American Studies, she reminded us of a resource that many of us learned about at Berlin's conference:
Cibera

And Luis Gonzalez talked about two databases/resource pages that he has been maintaining and expanding over the years:
Researching Brazil
Researching Mexico

Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha has just finished, and I, for one, have three pages of notes to follow up on! Owing to wifi failure, I was seen without my computer surgically attached to my fingers; I even proved that I do still know how to write. However, I still managed to learn a lot from each presentation and hope that we have started a new SALALM tradition.

Thanks to Daisy for maintaining the Tweets!

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A big thanks to all the presenters who did a fabulous job! Presentations are bring embedded on the blog

Moderator: Alison Hicks



Speaker 1: KD McCann

In Translation 3

Speaker 2: Daisy Dominguez
Tukushka Minga Virtual

Speaker 3: Kent Norsworthy
What's New at LANIC

Speaker 4: Martha Kelehan
Gapminder, GIS, And the Digital Humanities

Speaker 6: Daniel Schoorl
Visualizations


Speaker 7: Luis Gonzalez

Bibliographic Commons

Second Day at SALALM's Conference in Providence

After a constant "vaiven" of back to back activities, the 2nd day of SALALM's internal meetings seemed less hectic but with just as intense discussions on a variety of topics.

The "libreros" gathering provided a forum for SALALM's vendors to address issues like the constant reduction of library budgets (will it ever end?) and how to position themselves as independent booksellers to face the competition from the larger and better funded media conglommerates. At some level it's preaching to the converted (we in SALALM) that vendors based in Latin America go the extra mile in trying to locate materials that dealers in the United States may not be able to do OR are not willing to do.

A much anticipated post-lunch meeting (e-SALALM discussion) drew a standing room only audience. We focused on ways in which the organization can transition into an electronic environment, make better use of emerging technologies and have a more dynamic online presence.

As participants approached the registration area, they could not miss the many souvenirs displayed on an overflowing table nearby. These are the items being raffled to raise funds for the Enlace/Outreach Subcommittee that for more than 20 years has been granting scholarships to bring Latin American information professionals to participate at SALALM annual conferences.

Stay tuned for tomorrow for a report on the keynote speech and much more.

SALALM's 55th Annual Meeting from Providence.

More than 180 SALALM members (librarians,vendors and visitors) have gathered at Providence for the group's annual meeting which started on Thursday (July 22nd) and is being hosted by Brown University.

SALALM's professional activities started with two pre-conferences:

1) An eclectic group of 22 SALAMistas enjoyed a unique experience: studying rare books dating back to the 17th century as part of the "History of the Book in Mexico" seminar.

2) A similarly eager group of 7 professionals new to Latin American Studies learned about collection development where topics ranged from Spanish-language publishing to the ever-present discussion of everything digital (e-books, e-journals...).

The first day of internal meetings (Friday, July 23rd) provided a full agenda where veteran librarians, vendors from Latin America and Europe and few newcomers participated in discussions on a wide variety of topics of interest beyond Latin American Studies Librarianship: reference services and BI in a digital environment; electronic resources; reduced budgets; cooperative collection development projects, etc.

It is all part of the umbrella of the conference's theme: "The Future of Latin American Library Collections and Research: Contributing and Adapting to Trends in Research Libraries."
As good colleague and friend from the other side of the Rhode Island borders says: more as it happens.

Dear loyal blog readers,

Just sending along another plug for our eSALALM session on Saturday, thinking that this kind of stuff might be especially interesting to those of you who are part of our blogosphere. See some of you soon! //pamela

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A reminder that we will be holding an e-SALALM Discussion on Saturday, July 24th, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. in State Suite B of the Providence Biltmore.

Please join us to discuss and provide feedback on several topics related to using technology and the internet to disseminate information about SALALM. The discussion will focus on the following topics and we welcome the attendance and input of all SALALM members.

SALALM Newsletter -- possibilities and opportunities for online publishing of newsletter content (a recommendation from the Editorial Board will be distributed via LALA-L prior to the conference)

SALALM Publications-- options for online access and publishing of SALALM content (conference papers, etc.)

Webinars -- opportunities for engaging in training and sharing SALALM expertise via webinars

For members who won't be attending the conference next week, please contact us with any ideas and suggestions related to these topics.

Since we only have an hour it’s going to be a tight squeeze but, should time permit, we’d love to hear what other ideas you might have.

Thanks!

Pamela and Orchid

Pecha Kucha: SALALM LV

I'd like to invite you all to attend SALALM's inaugural Pecha Kucha!

Also many other thrilling presentations; see the Program for more details.
See you there!
Alison H