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The SALALM Repository is an online space for storing and accessing papers, presentations, and similar materials relating to Latin Americanist librarianship as well as documents related to SALALM's organizational activities.

Repository contents may be used freely, with proper attribution, in educational and other non-commercial settings. The views of the authors are their own and do not represent the official views of SALALM, its officers, or agents.

Files should be converted into PDF before uploading them to the repository. Reach out to the SALALM Repository Coordinator, Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, at mairelys_lemus-rojas@brown.edu for any questions about submitting works.

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    Search engine optimization for the research librarian: a case study using the Bibliography of U.S. Latina lesbian history and culture
    (Practical Academic Librarianship, 2014) Gasparotto, Melissa
    Higher website rank among search engine results is correlated with higher site visit numbers: studies have repeatedly demonstrated how important it is to a site's visibility and popularity to appear in the first page of search results for a given query. Librarians and researchers, long seen as creators and providers of high-quality content, now see our own web-based materials in direct competition for the higher-ranked slots for many keyword searches. For certain areas of research, sexuality studies in particular, websites with relevant informational or scholarly content have been nudged out of the top rankings by content that is not only unrelated to a variety of search term combinations, but quite often consists of explicit pornography, and nowhere is this more obvious than in ethnic lesbian studies. It is therefore necessary for scholars and librarians who put ethnic lesbian sexuality studies content on the Web to assign high-quality metadata and to format their content appropriately in order to receive a visible rank in search engine results for these sexuality studies research keywords. This case study investigates how librarians and other researchers can prepare online bibliographies to take advantage of search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and therefore see enhanced visibility for these resources in search engine results, using the author's Bibliography of U.S. Latina Lesbian History and Culture as an example. Search engine optimization techniques were applied to the bibliography and significant improvements in site visibility in Google searches for targeted keywords were observed. The author recommends that all librarians who prepare content for the Web learn about search engine optimization and take it into account when preparing material for the Web.
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    Subject headings and searchable notes : how catalogers improve access to Latin American collections at UNC-Chapel Hill libraries
    (2016-05-12) Levinson, Sara
    Brief discussion of cataloging Brazilian cordel literature, adding contents notes, and proposing subject headings and call numbers to the Library of Congress.
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    SALALM Repository Update
    (2022-05-02) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys
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    The Indian art project at UNC-CH: increasing accessibility and decreasing marginality of indigenous people’s art
    (2022-05-03) Levinson, Sara
    Discusses the project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in which books dealing with the art of the indigenous peoples of the Americas were reclassed and enhanced. This was done to provide greater access to the materials and to integrate the indgenous art into the other materials located at the Art Library on campus.
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    Librarian for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in U.S. Academic and Research Libraries: A Content Analysis of Position Announcements, 1970-2007
    (2009) Alonso-Regalado, Jesús; Van Ullen, Mary
    The present research investigates the evolving requirements, roles, and responsibilities of the Latin American and Caribbean studies librarian. Content analysis was used to study 94 position announcements published from 1970 to 2007. Variables were examined from the following categories: position description, educational background, work experience, technology skills, languages, personal traits, duties, and subject responsibilities. Cross tabulations and chi-square tests were executed to determine the statistical significance of relationships between variables. An advanced degree in a related subject field is expected by employers. Strong Spanish language abilities are required, and a working knowledge of Portuguese is highly desirable. The average number of duties per announcement has increased over time, reflecting the evolution of the position from being narrowly specialized to being more diversified. The Latin American and Caribbean studies librarian may also be responsible for additional subjects, in particular Iberian studies.
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    Dynamic Duos: Interrogating Latin American Curricula through Faculty-Librarian Partnerships
    (2019) Alonso-Regalado, Jesús; Arbino, Daniel; Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela; Vassallo-Oby, Christine; Ramos, Marisol; Venator-Santiago, Charles; Voigt, Lisa
    The ever-changing education and information landscape has brought with it an increased focus on teaching pedagogy and curriculum design. In response, Latin American Studies faculty are pursuing creative pedagogical directions and approaches in areas such as digital scholarship and information literacy in partnership with librarians and archivists. This roundtable will explore faculty-librarians practice-based initiatives focusing on issues related to the Global North and South. The uniqueness of this roundtable is that both the teaching faculty and the librarian representing each academic institution will be present. The University at Albany will discuss the redesign of a Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies undergraduate major, including a revamped theory and methods capstone, where both the faculty and the librarian actively participate in its development and implementation. The Ohio State University will examine the integration of digital humanities pedagogy and research methods into a course on the literatures and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. University of Connecticut will present on their award-winning project, The Puerto Rico Citizenship Archive Project, a library-faculty collaboration to create a database that gives access to all the documentation regarding the granting of U.S. citizenship to the people of Puerto Rico. Participants will explore the potential of faculty/librarian/archival partnerships to introduce transformative Latin American curricula and research practices. The roundtable will facilitate a discussion on best practices, lessons learned, scalable design and benefits to Latin American Studies faculty and students.
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    ASARO
    (2011-06-01) Marchildon, Jared