Today I went to visit a couple of the libraries that make up the BiblioRed in Bogota. BiblioRed is Bogota’s public library systems, and it’s composed of a number of large, and small libraries, as well as a bibliobus. Today I went to visit the Biblioteca Pública Parque El Tunal, and the Biblioteca Pública Virgilio [...]

While I was growing up in Colombia libraries were very scarce, the only library one ever heard mentioned was the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango (BLAA), which I finally got to visit. While the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango is owned by the Banco de la República de Colombia, it is very much a public library, and [...]

I arrived in Bogota last night and today I’m off to visit a few libraries, my first stop is the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. As Colombia’s national library, one of their main responsibilities is serving as the country’s legal deposit. The collection includes monographs, journals, and a large music collection. The library’s music collection includes [...]

Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America by Chesa Boudin My rating: 4 of 5 stars I picked up this book because of the title; I’m a big fan of the word “Gringo.” And for those of you who are about to get offended, know that I am the daughter of a self-proclaimed “gringo” [...]

My friend Alberto Martinez, who works at El Colegio de México, is always collaborating on great projects, the most recent one has resulted in free access to all the journals that the university edits! The journals, which cover a wide range of topics, many of them relating to Mexican history can be accessed here. You [...]

A couple days ago my father sent me this slide show from the BBC on the pirate book industry in Peru. The author comments that Peru has one of the worst cases of book pirating in all of Latin America, and that books from all over the world find their way into the industry. It [...]

The Latin American Briefing Series is part of the University of Chicago’s Center for Latin American Studies; they regularly invites guest to discuss a wide range of topics and issues, and kindly makes them available through their website for free! Look through their online archive to find videos of previous events. Some of these include [...]

Between mid November and mid December the boat “El Navegante de la Amazonía” navigated along the Amazon and Putumayo rivers in Colombia offering training in the use of computers and the web. This project was developed by Colombia’s Ministry of Technology and aims at helping people in this part of the country to access the [...]

Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City is looking for a new librarian. Job duties will includes  descriptive cataloging, Dewey Decimal System classification, collection development, and reference.  The successful candidate must be fluent in both English and Spanish. El Colegio de Mexico is one of Mexico’s leading universities. The school includes one of the best libraries [...]

I’ve seen biblioburros, a camel mobile library, a traveling library in a suitcase, and now here’s a bibliomoto offering library services around the Huarmey province in Peru. The bibliomoto is part of the Biblioteca Comunal Obraje which aims at promoting literacy and increasing a general level of education among the population. The project has a [...]