Minutes
April 15, 2005
Gainesville, Florida

Present: Lynn Shirey (Chair; Harvard), Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez (Princeton), Norma Palomino (U. Torcuato Di Tella), Georgette Dorn (LC), Jesús Alonso (Albany), Eduardo Lozano (Pitt), Denise Hibay (NYPL), Dan Hazen (Harvard), Miguel Valladares (Dartmouth), Patricia Figueroa (Brown), David Block (scribner; Cornell), Darlene Hull (UConn), Angela Carreño (NYU), César Rodríguez (Yale), Pamela Graham (Columbia), Peter Stern (UMass), Joe Holub (UPenn), Edmundo Flores (LC), Peter Altekrüger (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut).

  1. Minutes of the fall meeting, see http://www.lanelibraries.org/min_nov04.htm were approved.
  2. We welcomed Jesús Alonso, of SUNY Albany, as a new member.
  3. Web page update. Fernando continues to update the webpage with contributions supplied by members. New areas include the section on Latin American and Iberian literary manuscripts http://www.lanelibraries.org/litmss.htm . A suggestion for linking to members' digital projects was well received, and Denise Hibay agreed to aggregate submissions.
  4. Patricia (now the incoming chair, succeeding Lynn's highly successful leadership) reported on the emerging Iberian affinity group in SALALM, which has drafted its mission and objectives and a tentative set of issues, among which are identifying vendors in Spain and Portugal (especially the latter), establishing some coordination with ACRL WESS; examination of exchange programs. Members also discussed their options for improved book distribution from Spain and Portugal . We may continue to develop this theme at our fall meeting.
  5. Denise Hibay announced that NYPL has created a new curatorial position to include Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies which has since been posted to the web http://www2.nypl.org/home/hr/jobs/index.cfm?Trg=4&RecId=1606
  6. Several LANE members were planning to travel over the summer months of 2005, and we will wait for them to report back on lane-l on issues of interest to the membership.
  7. We bid a fond farewell to Darlene Hull, who will have departed sunny Storrs , CT , for the gloom of San Juan , PR, before we meet again. Keep in touch, compañera.

Next meeting at the Instituto Cervantes in NYC sometime in the fall.

 

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