SALALM: An Introduction

Víctor Federico TorresUniversidad de Puerto Rico

Orchid MazurkiewiczUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials

Seminario sobre la Adquisición de Materiales de Bibliotecas Latinoamericanos

SALALM

History Organization Activities Projects

Origins

1956, Florida Problems associated with the

acquisition of materials form Latin America– Identifying what’s been published– Obtaining materials at each library– Processing and preservation

Organizational Structure

Incorporated in 1968 Executive Board Executive Secretary Secretariat

Membership

Personal members Institutional members

Commitees

Membership Constitution & By-laws Finance Editorial Board Nominations

Substantive Committees

Acquisitions Access & Bibliography Library Operations & Services Interlibrary Cooperation

Committee Projects

New serial titles list Booksellers directory Video database Latin American periodical price index Brazilian serials for exchange José Toribio Medina Award Enlace travel awards

Activities

Annual conference Next conference:

– April 16-19 2005, Gainsville, FL

Publications

Conference papers Bibliography & Reference Series Special publications SALALM newsletter, 1976-

Awards

Enlace– Carlos Delgado, Enlace committee chair

cdelgado@library.berkeley.edu Presidential Travel Fellowship

– Pamela Howard-Reguindin, President pamelahr@loc.gov

Communication

Listserv– Lala-l@listserv.uga.edu

Website– http://www.salalm.org

Affiliated Projects

Latin American Microfilm Project (LAMP) Latin Americanist Research Resources

Project– Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents

(LAPTOC)– Presidential messages

Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)