Críticas Connection for July, 2006

CRÍTICAS Connection

July, 2006

Hispanic Heritage Month:
Innovative Programming to
Engage Spanish Speakers

New Orleans ALA Was Hot on
Latino Issues

Eduardo Lago To Lead the
Cervantes Institute

APA to Award Annual Audie®
to Spanish-language Books

Gwinnet County Library
Reinstates Spanish-language
Budget

Serving All Patrons

Judge Orders Cuba Book To Be Kept on Shelves
On June 27th, U.S. District Judge Alan Gold ordered the Miami-Dade County school district to keep a series of banned children's books until a preliminary hearing on July 21st. The school board banned Vamos a Cuba (A Visit to Cuba)—a book containing images of smiling children in Cuba—after a parent complained that the book portrayed an idealistic picture of Cuba.

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Syndetic Solutions Supports
Multi-Cultural Libraries
Syndetic Solutions—a Bowker subsidiary—announced it is now offering Spanish-language annotations and review excerpts. This content will come from more than 40 popular sources, including Vanidades, Qué Leer, La Jornada, El Diario/La Prensa, and Primera Hora.

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Dark Horse Debuts Star Wars Series in Spanish
Last month, Dark Horse Comics—in conjunction with Lucas Books—launched a new line of Spanish-language Star Wars graphic novels. The original series includes titles featuring characters from the original trilogy as well as prequel heroes. The first three Spanish-language books published include a juvenile title based on the Cartoon Network's animated Clone Wars cartoons (La Guerra de los Clones).

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Now available -- Spanish Editions of Harvard Business School Press titles: Hardball (8423423182), Crisis Management (8423418200), Managers Tool Kit (8423422534) and Effective Communication (8423422852). Call 800-343-4499 to order.
www.planeta.es

La verdad de Agamenón by Javier Cercas
The writings of Javier Cercas can be recognized through an unmistakable style and voice, but also because of the intricate mixture of genres that coexist in them and of the ease with which he goes from fiction to non-fiction, and back.


Adult-Nonfiction Spanish-language Slang	Children's Frida	Video Neto's Silence

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	Luis López Nieves—Changing History
The award-winning Luis López Nieves, whose bestselling historical novel El corazón de Voltaire (Voltaire's Heart) has him touring all fall, is also the founder and director of Ciudad Seva, a digital library that has received more than 6.5 million visitors from all over the world. more

Hispanic Heritage Month: Innovative Programming to Engage Spanish Speakers
"The familiar parking lot ceased to be a place in Blue Island," says Deb Beasley, children's services librarian at Blue Island PL, IL, in reference to the library's Mexican Independence Day celebration last year, which drew a crowd of more than 300. "The sounds, the food, the people.... I felt as though I'd been transported to a town in Mexico."

Audio Best Sellers – July

Now Latino. Various. (Sony. 2006.)

RDB Live in Hollywood RDB. (EMI International. 2006.)

Orgullo de mujer. Villarreal, Alicia. (Universal Latino. 2006)

King of Kings. Don Omar. (Machete Music. 2006.)

Historias que contar. Los Tigres del Norte. (Fonovisa. 2006.)

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