BPLG's Booktalks
- Recommendations and suggestions by librarians for librarians and educators
are given at this link. México Para Niños - (En Español)
With bright colors and wonderful links, this Mexican site provides Spanish
speaking children information on México such as its history, its
geography, its government, and its culture. As part of its entertainment
links, children can play "Ciberlotería",
an online version of the popular Mexican game, lotería.
The
Pura Belpré
Award -- Pura Belpré
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Andanzas al Web Latino – A directory to different
links on politics, economics, culture and the arts. HispanicDotCom
- (English) Nicknaming itself “a cyber-barrio” site and still in
development, this site provides information, services and technology access
to the Latino community in the Hispanic Reading Room, Library
of Congress - (Bilingual) This is a focus access point for researchers
to have the opportunity to obtain materials Luso-Hispanic
relating to geographic areas of the Caribbean, Latin America and Iberia
(Spain & Portugal) and the peoples of Luso-Hispanic
heritage in the United States, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Hispanic Pages in the USA – (Bilingual, mostly English)
This simple site has links to various fascinating Hispanic websites from
LatinoWeb
– (English) Access to e-mail, headline news items
relating to professional Latinos and links to different categories of topics
such as organizational websites and monthly events are given at this site.
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Educational Resources
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Bilingual Education
– Education majors and teachers will find a plethora of
links to sites dealing with bilingual education and Latino culture. Internet
in Spanish - Powerpoint presentation
in Spanish which can be used to give Internet workshops. Practice using
the computer mouse - Spanish language
resource to help beginning computer users become familiar with using
a mouse. RETAnet
- Resources for Teaching about the Americas –
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Hispanic
Heritage Month |
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Celebrate
Hispanic Heritage Month! – A good site for teachers, librarians, and others
planning activities for Hispanic Heritage month. |
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Holidays
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LANIC –
(Latin American Network Information
Center) LANIC is managed by the Latin World - More than just a search engine for the Iberoamerica and the Organization
of American States – (Bilingual) Just about everything relating to
this international organization is well presented in this site. This is
a most useful for those studying Latin American Studies and/or politics
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Library Association
Projects |
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The Association of Research
Libraries Latin Americanist Research Resources
Pilot Project - Is a project of the
Association of Research Libraries whose purpose is to "create a prototype
for a fully connected collections for Latin American Studies. |
Native Peoples
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Amazon-Indians
Movement in the Amazon for Tribal Subsistence
and Economic Sustainability (MATSES) is a non-profit organization for
Matses Indians, an indigenous Tribe from
the Amazon Rainforest.
The American
Native Press Archives is devoted to the preservation and dissemination
of the written words of Native peoples. |
Music
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El Mariachi.com ( formerly known as Mexican Songs/Cancans Mexicans
(Maruichi Cardinal de Stanford) - Provides lyrics
of popular Mariachi songs, along with lyrics for boleros, corridos, rancheras
and other genres of Latin songs. This site gives you the option of translating
these songs into English, if desired. La Musica.com (formely known asLatin
Music Online ) - Makes
connections to information about Latin Music. The site includes: news
flashes, reviews, interviews, and other information relating to Música Latina. |
Periodicals
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El Andar
- (Bilingual) This online U.S. Latino site includes links to articles from
its most current issue. Hispanic Online – (English) With this site, Hispanic Magazine
provides U.S. Latinos with a online forum. America
Online uses this site as a resource on Latino life. Latina Online - With a positive and
empowerment attitude, this online magazine focuses on El Mundo (Espana) - Based in Madrid, Spain, this online
newspaper provides daily news on local, national, and international events
with links to different sections of this Spanish language newspaper. El Nuevo Herald (Miami) - This Spanish
language newspaper covers local, national and international news. The city
of La Prensa de
San Antonio - This bilingual online newspaper covers news items from
News Sources of Central
America - News and information resources on News Sources of Cuba,
Dominican Rep. & Puerto Rico -News and information resources
on News Sources of México
-News and information resources on México. News Sources of South
America -News and information resources on Prensa
Escrita -International Spanish newspapers. Toda la Prensa
- Directory of media links to free newspapers, magazines, radio and
television with a focus on Spanish and
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Public Library
Links
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The International
Center of the San Francisco Public Library – (Bilingual) provides
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Resource Centers
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Center for Latin America (University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) - The
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