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Chicago: Rudy Lozano Library celebrates with art
Harlingen, a city Dolly whipped pretty hard on Wednesday). Lozano is credited as a key to Harold Washington's 1983 mayoral victory, for mobilizing coalitions of Black and Latino voters. The young Mexican-American was himself nearly elected a Chicago alderman when he was barely thirty. The Chicago Public Library named a branch for Rud...Read More
Cancer awareness outreach in the Philippines
I am in the Philippines conducting workshops for IFLA/FAIFE (I am going to Tokyo afterwards for more.) Here I met Lily Echivarri, Chair of our conferences, Information Access: Internet and Libraries - and the IFLA/UNESCO Internet Manifesto Guidelines: Train the trainers workshop. Lily is also the Assistant Law Librarian of the University of the Philippines (UP). She is also a Rotarian and it was with them that she got started in working with various communities in Manila.
...Read MoreBrownsville's library helps city brace for Dolly
I hope the weather's better where you are. Heavy winds and rain started in the middle of the night here, 60 miles inland from Brownsville-Matamoros where Hurricane Dolly is expected to come ashore around noon.
"The Brownsville Public Library was transformed into the city's emergency operations center on Tuesday for Hurricane Dolly's imminent arrival," is the lead of the story that Laura Tillman filed for The Brownsville Herald early this morning:
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Colombian joins library board in Spam City
I hitchhiked to Austin, Minnesota back when there was a pretty big strike going on at the Hormel meatpacking plant, and since I was lugging a guitar the Local P-9 members asked me for a song. When they did not run me immediately out of town after the song ended, I concluded that Austinites are a tolerant people.
The news from there this weekend is that is that Colombian mother and translator Catalina Ferreira-Truong is the newest member of the library board of Austin Public. A story in Saturday's Austin Daily Herald, "Ferreira-Truong to tak...Read More
Mind the gap: bridging the inter-generational divide to future-proof the profession
New Librarians and library decision-makers of the world take note: IFLA/ New Professionals Discussion Group will host a unique program at the IFLA Congress in Quebec.
Title: Mind the gap: bridging the inter-generational divide to future-proof the profession
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The last decade has intensified the discourse of what competencies are needed for libraries to meet the infor...Read More
Guess how many black male librarians there are in Delaware
The News Journal up in Delaware today runs a story with a familiar-sounding headline. Alex Guillén's article, "Libraries aim for more diverse staff," features the thoughts of Tom Miller, director of a public library in Wilmington, and PJ Grier who runs a medical school library in Stanton.
They and only five others account for all the library-degreed African-American men working for the state's libraries.
Besides Weaver and Grier, three black male librarians work at the University of Delaware, one at Brandywine School District's Mount Pleasant Elementary School ...Read More
Access to Free Professional Development Opportunities
This year, as part of the 2008 Emerging Leaders Institute, six internationally-minded librarians worked on an ALA International Relations Round Table initiative to add value to the ALA membership for international librarians. Over the first six months of 2008, this EL group (and IRRT mentor) developed a format to present free tutorials and free downloads in the professional development area of technology. The final product turned out to be 500 links organized on a wiki using del.i...Read More
Multicultural cinema sources
Summertime is movie time. I wouldn't mind being in an air-conditioned movie house right now watching Hellboy II. But, you know how it is: with ticket prices slated to rise by another two or three bucks because of the price of popcorn, according to UC Santa Cruz prof Dr. Ricard Gil, I would just as soon find a video to watch at home with the fan spinning full blast.
Dr. Gil knows movie concessions, but his colleagues up the coast in Berkeley are the ones who know the movies. The Media Resources Center at UC Berkeley has compiled tremendous videographies, lists of films with descriptive notes.
Check out their ...Read More
Native Hawaiian Library
While at ALA, I attended a beautiful reception hosted by former ALA President, Loriene Roy to honor Native Hawaiian Librarians. The reception, held outdoors on a terrace with a magnificent view, opened with a blessing and then continued with inspiring dances and fabulous conversations. Kekilani Meyer, the Interim Director of the Native Hawaiian Library displayed information about her library. I thought of sharing a bit about this library with you.
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Computer classes win new friends for a Wisconsin library
Up in Marathon County, Wisconsin, there's some more great media coverage of a library striving to serve families of Spanish-speaking backgrounds. The Wausau Daily Herald today features a series of computer classes. Launched at a community service organization, the classes were moved to the larger computer lab at the public library and cleverly wedded to its other services.
Some highlights of "Computer class connects Spanish speakers, library":
The library will become more a familiar place to Hispanic residents this summer as a result of ...Read More
Medicare & Medicaid Resources in English and Spanish
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services developed various resources to help seniors to better understand issues and processes related to the Medicare. This seems to be an area of concern for many seniors. The new resources will help librarians to provide serious information about Medicare & Medicaid.
The publications are available from the Centers' website in English and Spanish:
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Nicolás Guillén
He was the original, the preeminent, Afro-Cuban all-star poet. Below you can hear him read his "Poema de amor" ("Love Poem"). Guillén's voice is the foundation of a video made by yet another creative YouTubist.
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