The Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) is organizing a series of roundtables that will take place during our 61st annual conference “‘Nuestro norte es el sur’: Mapping Resistance and Resilience in Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies,” May 9-13, 2016, hosted by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Emerging from a desire to explore the implications of globalization for academia, and, in particular, for area studies, these roundtables have been designed to facilitate an open and integrative space in which we can reflect, discuss, challenge, make recommendations and build collaborations for future directions in Latin American Studies. They also seek to actively involve participation from the core constituents of area studies teaching and learning, including representatives from the academic research, publishing, teaching, and librarian communities.
With these roundtables we want to provide a forum that continues the dialog that took place at the “Collaboration, Advocacy, and Recruitment: Area and International Studies Librarianship Workshop” held at Indiana University in October 2013 and the roundtable “The Impact of Campus Internationalization on the Research Library” held at last year’s SALALM conference. These discussions addressed the fact that the focus on globalization in higher education requires a deep and broad understanding of all cultures and societies, which translates to a greater demand for international resources. What is the impact on globalized campuses and how will this fact influence the support for area and international collections and services without forgetting the question of the privileged position of the Global North in Latin American and the Caribbean academic discourse?
As interested stakeholders of the academic library community, we would like to invite you to join us online via live stream for these three roundtables. Each roundtable will consist of five invited individuals that represent one of the aforementioned stakeholders and who will give a 15-minute presentation focused on one of the three main topics of the conference, collaboration, designing for the future, and advocacy. Please read the attached information for all the details on the topics that will be discussed. These roundtables will take place on May 9th and 10th, 2016 from 6-9pm London time.
Full information on the roundtables and the conference is also available online:
· Live Streaming: http://people.virginia.edu/~mav4n/salalm2016/round.html
· Roundtables: http://people.virginia.edu/~mav4n/salalm2016/roundtables/tables.html
· Conference: http://people.virginia.edu/~mav4n/salalm2016/theme.html
Please note that presentations, discussions, and audience participation can be in any of SALALM’s three official languages (English, Portuguese or Spanish). Alas, there will be no live translation service.
We look forward to your participation!
Best wishes,
Paloma Celis Carbajal,
SALALM President 2015-2016
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