March 26, 2008
Over 30 curriculum units and presentations from the Learning and the Land: How Sustainable Development Can Build a Strong Educational Foundation seminar have been added to the LANIC Etext Collection. The curriculum units were developed by educators who participated in a month-long Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program in Brazil. The Seminar pre-departure orientation and the curriculum development project were coordinated by the LLILAS Outreach Office.
March 20, 2008
LANIC is pleased to announce completion of our 2008 Redesign Project. Under the direction of LANIC GRA and Web design expert Bethany Letalien, the redesign seeks to improve LANIC's usability, accessibility, and visual appeal while increasing our compliance with Web standards and guidelines.
A significant number of changes integral to the redesign were adopted based on
feedback from LANIC users. As always, we encourage any and all feedback and look forward to receiving your comments on the redesign.
March 4, 2008
You will find ongoing coverage of the escalating Dispute between Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador in the LANIC Newsroom
February 14, 2008
After a prolonged hiatus, the LANIC Newsroom returns with coverage of the New Bolivian Constitution and related issues.
January 31, 2008
The Food & Nutrition page has been revised and expanded.
January 25, 2008
Volume 17 of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy's Annual Proceedings is now available.
January 16
Contents of the Castro Speech Database can now be full-text searched.
January 8
Issue number 31 of Estudios Sociales: Revista de Investigación Científica is now available.
November 28, 2007
The Music page has been revised and improved!
November 6, 2007
- The International section of the Libraries & Archives page has been expanded.
- The Hispanic/Latino page has been updated and expanded, with four new categories: Cinema, Education, Health, and Professional Associations.
- We have also updated the Travel page, adding the section Tools under International Resources. Here you will find links to currency and other converters, time zone information, and distance calculators.
June 6, 2007
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The following titles, all originally published in print format in 1987, have
been digitzed and added to the Texas Papers on Latin America
series, part of the LANIC Etext Collection:
- Elite Settlements
- Domestic Politics and Foreign Investment: British Development of Mexican Petroleum
- The Dilemma of Food Security in a Revolutionary Context: Nicaragua, 1979 - 1986
- The Outlook for the Mexican Economy
- Mexican Speech Play: History and the Psychological Discourses
- Rent Seeking, Rent Avoidance, and Informality: An Analysis of Third World Urban Housing
- Literature of the Sao Paulo Week of Modern Art
- Intermittent Use and Agricultural Change on Marginal Lands: The Case of Smallholders in Eastern Sonora, Mexico
- The Nicaraguan Experiment: Characteristics of a New Economic Model
- The Masses and the Critical Mass: A Strategic Choice Model of the Transition to Democracy in Brazil
- The Place of Social Democracy in the Argentine Political System
- Linguistic and Cultural Geography of Contemporary Peru
- Decline and Fall of the Spanish Merchants at Buenos Aires: Marcó del Pont in the Age of Independence
May 30, 2007
- Please visit our redesigned Trends in Latin American Networking - TILAN site, sporting new colors, a new layout, and new logo, among other changes and improvements.
May 8, 2007
- The full text of over 75 papers presented at this year's ILASSA27 Student Conference on Latin America are now available in the LANIC Etext Collection.
April 27, 2007
- The Caracas-based Programa Cultura, Comunicación y Transformaciones Sociales has joined the Latin American Open Archives Portal - LAOAP as our newest content provider. Initially, about 50 monographs and books published under the auspices of the Programa will be made available through the LAOAP.
April 12, 2007
- Visit the LLILAS Calendar Archive, the newest addition in the LANIC Etext Collection. The Calendar Archive contains the full text of over 250 LLILAS events calendars published between 1995 and 2005.
March 28, 2007
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The following six titles have been added to the LLILAS Visiting Resource Professors
Papers series, part of the LANIC Etext Collection:
- National Law and Indigenous Customary Law: The struggle for justice of indigenous women in Chiapas, Mexico
- O populismo visto da periferia: Adhemarismo e Janismo nos bairros da mooca e São Miguel Paulista, 1947 - 1953
- The Argentine Recovery: some features and challenges
- Perú Elecciones 2006: Auge y caida del nacionalismo de Ollanta Humala
- La renovación de la justicia indígena en tiempos de derechos: etnicidad, género y diversidad
- Borges y la política
February 12, 2007
- Results from the most recent quarterly crawl are now available in our Latin American Government Documents Archive, LAGDA. The LAGDA Archive uses Web archiving technology to capture and preserve the Web sites of hundreds of Latin American government ministries and presidencies. You can browse these archived sites by country, or conduct a full-text search across the entire contents of the Archive.
January 9, 2007
- Visit the redesigned Etext Collection page.
New Sources have been added to the following pages:
- Folklore
- Regional:
- Bailes Latinoamericanos
- Cuentos y Leyendas Americanas
- Danzas del Mundo
- Folclor Hispano
- Tradiciones Latinas
- Argentina:
- El Folklore Argentino
- Festival Nacional de Folklore
- Colombia:
- Folklore Colombia
- Mexico:
- Danzas y Trajes de Jalisco
- Trajes Típicos
- Regional: