What's New Archives: September 1996

• Twelve new links have been added to the K-12 page. Under the section International Resources you can find: Hotlist of K-12 International School Sites-USA, Keypals International-South America, and KID. Under the section Teacher's Resources you can find links to: AskERIC, Children's Literature-Resources for Teachers, Collaborative Lesson Archive, EdWeb K-12 Resource Guide, K-12 Connections, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers, Teachers Edition Online, and A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 classrooms.
• Our Chile page, has three new links under the section Arts & Humanities: Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino.
• The recently declassified training manuals from the United States Army School of the Americas, Fort Benning, Georgia, have been added to the Country Resources section of the Military page.

• The Military page has three new links. The Chilean Army home page and the U.S.Army Foreign Military Studies Office are now in the Country Resources section, while the Military Expenditures page from SIPRI can now be found in the General section.
• Ten new links have been added to the Government & Politics page.
  • Argentina now has links to the Ministerio de Justicia and the home page for the Presidencia de la Republica;
  • The Senado Federal do Brasil is now in the Brazil section;
  • The Congreso de Chile is in the Chile section;
  • Two links to the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores and the Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito can be found in the Ecuador section;
  • Mexico has two new links to the Presidencia de la Republica and the Constituciones de Mexico y sus Estados; and
  • The Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua and LISTA 15 - el Partido Colorado de Uruguay, have been added to the Regional Resources section.

September 26, 1996

• Four new links have been added to the Ecuador page. U.S. State Department Travel Information and Lonely Planet's Guide to Ecuador now appear in the Travel & Tourism section; World Bank Projects and Reports can be found in the Economy section; and Telconet, an internet service provider is in the Network & Information Services section.
• A link to the FLACSO website has been added to the Costa Rica page.
• Our K-12 page has been updated with new links and sections. You can now find three new sections: International Resources, listing K-12 information from all over the world, Teachers' Sources, listing sources for helping teachers to prepare classes, and Children's Literature in Spanish, listing full-text reading material. In the same page under the Latin American Resources section, links to the Brazil Center School Page, and the Enlaces Project in Chile, have been added. Also, under the K-12 Schools by Country section, links to the Worldwide Classroom sites from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, have been added.

• A new link to Librarian's Home Page Directory, has been added under the section Newsgroups & Networks Services in our Libraries page.
• Our Food page, has two new links: Alimentacao, under the Brazil Regional Sources, and Traditional Food, Health & Nutrition, under the General section.
• Five new links have been added to our Chile page: the Mapuche and Mapuche Page sites, under the Academic Research Resources section; the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, under the Arts & Humanities section; and Enlaces-Red Educacional, and Universidad de la Frontera, under the WWW Servers section.
• New links have been added to our Peru page. Under the Business & Finance section, can be found two new links to: Import and Export Data from the IADB, and Estadisticas para el 2000 from INEI. The Economy section has a link to the Banco Central de Reserva, the Government section has two new links: Lima Renace... Municipalidad de Lima, and Junta del Acuerdo de Cartagena (JUNAC); and the WWW Servers section has a link to Universidad Ricardo Palma.

• Our Languages page, has five new links: Aymara Page, under the "new" Aymara section; Culture of the Andes, Fun facts about Quechua, and Runasimi Llikampi, under the Quechua section; and a List of Spanish Language Sites, under the Spanish section.
• A link to Recetas de mama, Peruvian recipes by Mario Cardenas, has been added to the Country Resources section of our Food page.
• Six new links have been added to the Travel & Tourism section of our Peru page: Adventure Travel, Cuzco Capital of the Incas, Ecoturismo, Great Outdoors Recreation Pages, Helicusco, and Inca Adventure Tours. Also, two new links: Ancient Civilization of the Andes, and Culture of the Andes, can be found in the Peruvian General section.
• Futbol Peruano, a site devoted to the world of Peruvian soccer, is now in the Country Resources section of our Sports page.
• Seven new links have been added to the Suriname page:
  • In the General section, you will now find links to The Complete Guide to Suriname and Gateway to Suriname.
  • The Government & Politics section has links to Suriname's National Democratic Party, Parliamentary Elections, and election data for Suriname from Georgetown University.
  • Lonely Planet's Destination: Suriname is now listed in the Travel section.
  • Suriname's first Web server, Telesur, is now in the WWW Server section.

• Eight new links: Bipo & Toni's Spanish School, Centro Linguistico Conversa, Proyecto Linguistico Francisco Marroquin, Simon Bolivar Spanish School, Summer Program in the Andes, Learn Spanish in Costa Rica, Learn Spanish in Mexico, and VENUSA CPSA; have been added to the sub-section "Spanish Language Schools" under the Spanish section of our Languages page. Also, under the same section, a course: Basic Spanish for the Virtual Student, has been added. And the General section of the same page, now contains a link to "Full Listing of Language Program Providers"
• In our Literature page, under the General section you can find a link to Gaceta Magnetica "Papeles de Trabajo" Literatura Latinoamericana; and under the Argentina section of Regional Resources, "Links de Recursos Literarios".
• A new link to "Yerba Mate" can be found in the Argentina section of our Food page.
• A link to the Biblioteca Nacional of Argentina has been added under the Online Catalogs section of our Libraries and Archives page. In the same section, seven new links to online catalogs from Brazil have been added: Arquivo Nacional, Biblioteca Nacional, la Divisao de Musica e Arquivo Sonoro, Bibliotecas do Parana, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Historia, and the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul. The same page now contains two new links: Library and Information Science Schools in USA, and WWW Resources in Library and Information Science, under the section Newsgroups & Networks Services. Also, links to the Library Reference Center, and the Library Electronic Text Resource Service, can be found under the section Digital Library Projects of the same page.
• A new site, "Cultures of the Andes", has been added to the Regional Resources section of the Anthropology page.
• Two new links have been added to the Arts & Culture and Government sections of the Haiti page.
• Two new links have been added to the General section of our Guyana page.
• On our Brazil page, the following links have been added to the Government section: Senado Federal, Instituto Brasileiro de Administracao Municipal, Campanha Mulheres Sem Medo de Poder, and Planejamento e Politicas Publicas.
  In the Academic Research Resources section you will now find the World Factbook: Brazil and Busca Universo Online.
• A link to Servidores Nacionales de Informacion has been added to WWW Servers on the Argentina page.
• The Fine Arts section of our Art page has a new link to Bocetos, Una publicacion de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Arte de la U. de Los Andes, Venezuela
• A link to Siglo XXI has been added to the News section of our Guatemala page, and to the News page.
• The Bolivia page has two new links. The Universidad Mayor de San Simon is now in the Education section, and Megalink has been added to the WWW Servers section.

• The Bolivian Home Page in South Africa has been added to the General Information section of the Bolivia page.
• The Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar and the Universidad Nur are now in the Education section of our Bolivia page.

• Two new additions to the Anthropology page. One to "Garifuna World" under the Regional Resources section, and the other to "Artes y Historia: Antropologia" in the Country Resources section.
• Two new links have been added to our Peru page. One to the "Comision Andina de Juristas" under the Other Resources section, and the other to the "Programa de Formacion en Educacion Intercultural Bilingue para la Region Andina (PROEIB)", under the Education section.

• A link to the CPDOC-Producao Intelectual from Brazil has been added to the Publishers & Bookdealers section of our Publications page. In the same page in the Electronic Publications section you can now find a link to Gaceta Economica from Panama.
• Under the Spanish section of our Languages page we added a smaller section listing six Spanish Language Schools in Latin America.

• Six new links have been added to the Travel & Tourism section of our Peru page.
• The Chile Species site, has been added to the Mexico section of our Food page. Also in the same page a link to Recetas Peruanas has been added under the Peru section.
• The site Uruguay, Pais de Encuentro has been added to the Travel & Tourism section of Uruguay page. Also in the same page, under the General section, you can find two new links: Uruguay by RAU, and Uruguay-Guia Mundial.
• Internauta: poesia argentina y latinoamericana has been added to the Arts & Humanities section of our Argentina page.
• Variaciones Borges, the trilingual journal of the Borges Center at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, has been added to the Magazines & Periodicals section of the Argentina page.
• Literatura Argentina Contemporanea has been added to the Arts & Humanities section of the Argentina page.
• Hispanic Online -- Latino Links: Culture has been added to the Academic & Research Resources section of the Art page.
• The Wonders of Brazil, a virtual exploration of Brazil's regions, culture and history, has been added to the Travel & Tourism section of the Brazil page.
• Three new sites have been added to the Magazines & Periodicals section of the Brazil page:
  • Arquivologia no Brasil
  • Ciencias Sociais no Brasil
  • Historia no Brasil
• Four new news & discussion groups have joined the News & Newsgroups section of our Brazil page:
  • XX Encontro Anual da Associacao Nacional de Pos-Graduacao e Pesquisa em Ciencias
  • H-LatAm, an international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History
  • PG-NET
  • SBPC-Hoje

• Three new links to: Editoras Online and IBRASA from Brazil, and Libreria Linardi from Uruguay, have been added to the Publishers & Bookdealers section of our Publications page.
• The Colegio America del Callao can be found in the Peru section of K-12 Schools, in our K-12 page.
• A new link to Literatura e Poesia in Brazil has been added to the Brazil section under Country Resources of our Literature page.
• Six new internet provider links have been added to the Network & Information Services section of our Venezuela page.
• Venezuela Analitica, a magazine of politics, society and the arts, is now listed in the News & Electronic Forums section of the Venezuela page.
• 2001, an award-winning newspaper from Caracas, has been added to the News & Electronic Forums section of the Venezuela page.
• Meridiano On-Line, a sports magazine from Venezuela, has been added to the South America section of our Sports page.

• The Discovery Center: WebGEMS, A Guide to Substantive Web Resources has been added to the Academic and Research Resources of the Brazil and Argentina pages.
• Our Indigenous page has two new links: Pre-Columbian Archaeology Related Links, and Tawantinsuyo, both of which can be found in the Latin American Resources section.
• The Art page has two new links: The Victor Escardo Multimedia page, now in the Film, Photography & Multimedia section, and Latin America on the Net, a resource guide to fine arts and culture links, in the Academic & Research Resources section.
• A link to Musica Andina has been added to our Music page.
• Take a look at the Brazilian Business Connection in the Business section of the Business & Finance page.
• Check out the new Ecuador Contacto site in the General section of the Ecuador page.
• Asociacion Peruana de Astronomia and Vistas del Sistema Solar have been added to the Astronomy page.
• Parques Nacionales de Costa Rica has been added to the Sustainable Development section of the WWW Servers in Costa Rica page.
• La Prensa: el diario de los nicaragüenses, can be reached from the News section of our Nicaragua page.
• Two new sites, the Asociacion Argentina de Informacion Medica and the Fundacion de Informatica Medica, have been added to the Argentina section of our Health page.
• You can now find the Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile in the Chile section of our Health page.
• NET-Salud, the home page of the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica, is now on our Health page.

• The Venezuela for Kids site has been added to the Latin American Resources section of the K-12 page. Also the site Mundo 21 has been added to the General Resources section of the same page.
• Now you can find Proyecto Sherezade, a site for novel Latin American authors, in the General Resources section of the Literature page. Also in the same Literature page, a link to Literatura Argentina Contemporanea, has been added under the Argentina section of Country Resources.

• A new link Visite Peru... has been added to the Travel & Tourism section of the Peru page.
• The Colegio San Jose de La Salle has been added to the Peru section under K-12 Schools By Country of the K-12 page. Also in the same page a Pre-Columbian Archeology site has been added under the Latin American Resources section.
• The Internet Conference Calendar now appears in the Academic & Research Resources sections of the Brazil and Argentina pages. The Internet Conference Calendar provides information on academic conferences and symposia, workshops, expositions, seminars and training courses worldwide. This information is available through searches by city, state, country or region, venue, event, type of event or date. You may also add entries to this searchable index.
• The Fundacion Cinematica Nacional de Venezuela has now been added to the Regional Resources section of the Cinema page.
• The Paginas Amarillas de Mercosur have been added to the Banking, Economy & Finance sections of the Brazil and Argentina pages.
• A new page on the state of Pernambuco has been added to the Travel & Tourism section of the Brazil page.
• The Brazilian American Business Group of the Graduate School of Business at UT Austin now appears in the Banking, Economy & Finance section of the Brazil page. The ABN AMRO Bank has been added to the same section.
• The Travel & Tourism section of the Argentina page has a new link to Viajes y Turismo en la Argentina.
• Lifelines: Web de la Salud, a comprehensive health resources network, is now in the Regional Health Organizations and Networks section of our Health page.
• You can now find the library services page for the Univerdidad de los Andes in the Libraries section of our Venezuela page.

September 10, 1996

• Three new links to the: Universidad de Tacna, Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco, and Universidad San Martin de Porres, have been added to the WWW Servers section of the Peru page.
• 300 Anos de Zumbi can now be found in the Arts & Humanities section of the Brazil page.
• Our new Academic Research Resources section in the Brazil page includes Os Arquivos Historicos da Fundacao Getulio Vargas.
• We've added two new links to the News & Newsgroups section of the Brazil page:
  Folha de Sao Paulo, and Jornais, a wide selection of Brazilian newspapers and other publications.

• The Colegio San Jose de La Salle has been added to the Education section of our Peru page.
• Four new links to CORDELICA, Gobierno de la Region Inka, Ministerio de Trabajo y Promocion Social y SUNAT could be found in the Government section of our Peru page.
• The Travel & Tourism section of our Peru page, includes now links to Mayuc Travel, One Way Transfers, and Sachavacayoc Center.
• Five new links have been added to the Network & Information Services section of the Brazil page:
  A Rede Nacional de Pesquisa;
  Netvale, O Primeiro Provedor de Acesso do Vale do Paraiba e Litoral do Norte;
  MTEC Net;
  Convex Provider and
  O Servidor de FTP da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
• Three new links have been added to the Banking, Economy & Finance section of the Brazil page:
  Aduaneiras, Informacoes sobre o comercio exterior brasileiro;
  AmchamNet, the American Chamber of Commerce for Brazil; and
  Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros, The Commodities & Futures Exchange of Sao Paulo.
  
• Sportbras, the home page of Brazil's national tennis federation, has been added to the South America section of our Sports page.

September 6, 1996

• The Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) of Uruguay, has been added to the Government Resources section of our Agriculture page.
  
• Look for the new list of WWW Servers in Uruguay on the section Network & Information Services in our Uruguay page.

• The Science & Technology section of our Brazil page has a new link to the Centro Nacional de Pesquisa Tecnologica em Informatica para a Agricultura.
  In Brazil's Network & Information Services you can now find your way to the Rio Datacentro at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Rio de Janeiro. We have a new link to that University's WWW server as well. We have also added the Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica to this section.

September 4, 1996

• The LANIC team would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for the valuable contributions made to the project over the past year by departing staff members O'Neal Spicer, Martin Acevedo, and Scott McClain. Thanks, for a job well done. We wish them well in their new endeavors.

  We also want to welcome aboard four new team members: Genève Gil, Ana Maria Talavera, Ethan Colaiace, and Bill Talbot. We all look forward to another exciting and productive year at LANIC.