Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources
ACLAIIR

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Welcome to the ACLAIIR website.

This site was kindly hosted by The British Library within its own website until July 2004 when this new, independent site was created.

Introduction

Welcome to the website of the Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources - ACLAIIR. This home page provides a brief introduction to the aims and activities of the Council. For further information, please contact any of the officers listed below.

Aims

The aim of the Advisory Council on Latin American and Iberian Information Resources (ACLAIIR) is to advance education in its two fields of interest (Latin America and Iberia), in particular by:

1. Acting as a focus for Latin American and Iberian studies in libraries of all kinds;

2. Providing information on libraries' holdings in the Council's fields of interest;

3. Acting as a forum for discussion between librarians and users of Latin American and Iberian materials;

4. Examining possibilities of cooperation between libraries and individuals or bodies concerned with such materials.

Latin American and Iberia are defined as follows:

Latin America:

all countries south of the Río Grande plus the reasonably adjacent islands, including the islands of the Caribbean, regardless of language.

Iberia:

all parts of the Iberian peninsula, including the reasonably adjacent islands, regardless of language.

ACLAIIR also collaborates with other Latin American interest groups such as:

· SLAS - The Society for Latin American Studies

· SALALM - Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials

· REDIAL - Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina

and with other groups interested in information provision such as the

· French Studies Library Group

· German Studies Library Group

· Italian Studies Library Group.

Membership and organization

Membership is open to any person or body having an interest in the aims of the Council. The annual subscription is currently 15 pounds sterling. ACLAIIR welcomes new members and hopes that you will consider joining us. To join ACLAIIR, please use the membership form and send it to the address indicated on it.

ACLAIIR holds an annual meeting of consultation with an accompanying seminar or similar event which is open to all members. ACLAIIR also organises other events such as workshops and seminars from time to time. The activities of ACLAIIR are organised by an elected committee which normally meets three or four times a year.

The elected officers of ACLAIIR are currently (2006-07):

Chairman

Geoff West

Hispanic Section
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB

Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7569

geoff.west@bl.uk

Secretary

Christine Anderson

Senate House Library
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU

Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8456

Christine.Anderson@london.ac.uk

Treasurer

John Laidlar

The John Rylands University Library
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PP

Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3742

john.laidlar@manchester.ac.uk

Electronic mailing lists

ACLAIIR does not have its own electronic mailing list at present, but two such lists which have material of interest are:

· LATAM-INFO (which covers Latin America)

· IBERIA (which covers the Iberian peninsula)

To join either list simply go to its web page and click on the link to "Join or leave the JISCmail list".

Mailing lists do operate for the French Studies Library Group and German Studies Library Group.

The printed ACLAIIR Newsletter is produced annually and is sent, free of charge, to all members of ACLAIIR. If you are not a member but would like to receive a copy, please contact the editors Christine Anderson and Antony Loveland. Tables of contents and full-text of some previous issues of the Newsletter are available here.

Publications

ACLAIIR has a publications programme. Titles produced under the auspices of ACLAIIR (or its predecessor ACOLAM) include:

· Travis, Carole (ed.) List of booksellers dealing in Latin Americana and Caribbeana. 2nd ed. London : University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies Library, 1987. ISBN: 0 901145 63 7

· McNeil, Robert A. & Barbara G. Valk (eds.) Latin American studies: a basic guide to sources. 2nd ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990. ISBN: 0 8108 2236 9

· Travis, Carole (ed.) A guide to Latin American and Caribbean census material: a bibliography and union list. London :The British Library, 1990. ISBN: 0 7123 00627

· Noble, Pat & Ann Wade (eds.) The future of Latin American research collections in the United Kingdom: reports and papers of two workshops ... London : Institute of Latin American Studies, 1993. ISBN: 0 901145 83 1

· Miller, Rory & Pat Noble Information technology for Latin Americanists. Liverpool : Society for Latin American Studies and ACLAIIR, 1994. ISBN (SLAS): 0 9522998 0 1 ISBN (ACLAIIR): 0 9522999 0 9

· Laidlar, John Iberian resources in the United Kingdom: a directory of libraries. London: ACLAIIR, 1996. ISBN:0 9522999 1 7

· Biggins, Alan & Cooper, Valerie (eds.) Latin American and Caribbean library resources in the British Isles: a directory. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London and ACLAIIR, 2002. ISBN: 1 900039 38 9

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