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Item Who are they talking about and what are they calling us? Hispanic, Latino/a/e/x or something else?(2025-05-29) Levinson, SaraThere has been a push recently to alter the terms used in the Library of Congress Subject headings to better reflect the peoples who are being described by the terms. These terms change over time, and some have been changed in the database, a task that has become far less daunting with the advent of online catalogs in which global updates are possible. Despite this, it is often difficult to demonstrate the need for specific changes. I will explain why I have been having problems with the heading “Hispanic Americans” and why I feel that it needs to be modified. Many Latin American and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (LAIPA) Funnel Project participants had the same concern, and as we struggled with the possible heading changes, we decided that one of the things we needed to do was to get a better sense as to how the people being included in that term self-identified. We created and disseminated a survey to that effect and are in the process of evaluating it and seeing how the information can have an impact on the suggestions we make to the Library of Congress.Item Time to Teach Taíno Heritage: A Perfect Intersection of Deep Information Literacy, Native American & Indigenous Studies and OER(2024-06-09) Espinal, IsabelIn the Fall of 2023, as the librarian for both Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Studies as well as Native American & Indigenous Studies, I taught a 1-credit Honors seminar titled “We are not extinct!’ Taíno culture and survivance in the past, present and future.” The course was partially supported by funding from the Digital Library of the Caribbean OER initiative to produce an open access syllabus. It engaged deep information literacy and offered the possibility for a future student co-authored OER. We looked at how knowledge about Taíno culture thrived but was also threatened by violence, the myth of extinction, and “paper genocide.” Three Taino speakers visited the class and the campus as part of the campus observation of Native American Heritage Month. These courses are intended to inspire a love of learning and to facilitate contact between students and faculty in a small, seminar-style setting. They also incorporate specific skills into the curriculum that will help prepare students for the Honors thesis, including writing in general, writing abstracts and literature reviews, competence in research, definition of a research question, computer literacy, presenting research results, and public speaking. This is a perfect opportunity for librarians.Item SALALM conference program, 2024(2024) Hernández, Christine L.Item Contributing to the Portuguese Wikipedia with the Wikipedia Translation Project at Brown University(2024-06-11) Lemus-Rojas, Mairelys; Sobral, Patricia; Figueroa, PatriciaProviding equitable access to the consumption and creation of knowledge is at the core of organizations like the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia, which is part of the ecosystem of open knowledge projects under the umbrella of Wikimedia, is available in over 300 languages. However, having this reach doesn’t mean all languages have the same coverage. With efforts underway carried out by the global community of users to try and mitigate the prevalent gender gap in the online encyclopedia, at Brown University, we have taken a step toward helping bridge the content and gender gap in the Portuguese-language version of Wikipedia. This is how the Wikipedia Translation Project was developed and has been implemented in the POBS 0400 course on Writing and Speaking Portuguese. The project mainly focuses on improving the coverage of those who lack representation, for example, women biographies in the Portuguese-language version of Wikipedia given that women biographies account for 20% of all biographies. In this presentation, we will share our experience in conceptualizing and implementing this project as well as its outcomes.Item Wikidata: Celebrating Women Latin Americanists in the Knowledge Base(2024-06-11) Lemus-Rojas, MairelysThe gender disparity across the Wikimedia ecosystem of projects continues to be prevalent. Wikidata, a project that is part of this ecosystem of free and open projects, offers a relatively low barrier for contributing content that can have an impact beyond these platforms. For instance, Wikidata’s data has been used to populate knowledge graphs as well as train large language models (LLM). In this workshop, you will learn about Wikidata and the tools/services available for contributing, visualizing, and querying data. We will focus on contributing data about women Latin Americanists which will serve as a step toward helping bridge the gender divide, enhancing the representation and visibility to this demographic group, as well as improving results in search engines. Participants are encouraged to bring names and biographical data of women Latin Americanists to contribute to Wikidata.Item SALALM newsletter, December 1977(SALALM Secretariat, Benson Latin American Collection, 1977-12)Item SALALM newsletter, June 1978(SALALM Secretariat, Benson Latin American Collection, 1978-06)Item SALALM newsletter, March 1978(SALALM Secretariat, Benson Latin American Collection, 1978-03)Item The Handbook of Latin American Studies: Its Automated History and a Comparison of Available Formats(1996-06-04) Mundell, P. Sue; North, Tracy; Moyano Martin, DoloresItem Serials acquisitions in the digital “future”: if it’s all online, what’s the problem?(2015-06-15) Osorio, JenniferOpen Access is being adopted at a breakneck speed in Latin America, much faster than it is in the United States or other developed countries. What is different about the model for OA in Latin America and what are the implications for libraries and collections? Are there dangers we should watch out for, even as we support this movement? Is Open Access in Latin America the same as in the United States? How are the models different? Given the speed of adoption of Open Access in Latin America, what do we know? What, if any, are the implications for libraries and collections of the rapid adoption of OA in Latin America? Are there dangers to the breakneck speed of OA adoption in Latin America?