OverDrive, the world’s largest supplier of digital content to public and school libraries, is adding new foreign language titles to its catalog. Some 30,000 new titles from major European publishers, including Spanish's Libranda, have been incorporated, adding to the accessibility of content for native speakers and interested language learners alike.
Maria de Lurdy Martinez Serrano from California, and Claudio Leon from New York, are the recipients of the 2014 awards. REFORMA scholarships are open to students who qualify for graduate study in Library and Information Science, and who are Spanish-speakers or interested in serving Latinos or the Spanish-speaking.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 24 of 2014 (week ending 6/15/2014).
One of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International, presented by The Center for Literature and Theatre at Miami Dade College, will celebrate its 31st edition this year, November 16 – 23, 2014, at MDC’s Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami.
20,000 ALA members, authors, publishers, and vendors will meet from Thursday, June 26 to Tuesday, July 1, and Publishers Weekly has prepared special coverage previous to the event.
Relief, concern and urgent help. With these three words El Pais describes the end of the 73rd Book Fair, Sunday in Madrid.
American publishers, editors and readers may finally be coming around to embracing more foreign literature, as proven at the recently held BookExpo America.
Nina Sankovitch writes in her blog how she became a fan of the author of “The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz”, the only one of her novels translated into English, and “Las Mujeres Inglesas Destrozan Los Tacones Al Andar”.
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), the only national association that represents existing and emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), is listed among the 2014 Top 25 Hispanic Nonprofits in the U.S., as published by HispanicBusiness.com.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 23 of 2014 (week ending 6/8/2014).
