The Spanish digital library and the National Library of France are the first winners of the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries. The award celebrates groundbreaking programs, projects and services for research libraries anywhere in the world.
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 8 of 2013 (week ending 2/24/2013).
This year's catalog includes Agencia ELE's levels 5, 6, Basic and Intermediate, “Nuevo Avance” exercise book and a list of recommended reading materials for Spanish learners.
The New York-based library has a full agenda this month. It starts this Friday at 7 p.m. with Spanish Book Club featuring Mario Bellatin's “El libro uruguayo de los muertos”.
The Spanish writer was awarded the prize for "El año en que me enamore de todas" (The Year I Fell in Love with Everyone), described by the jury as an "original and brilliant" work that features a pair of intertwining stories and tones.
Spain’s Cervantes Institute and Mexico’s largest university are in conversations to work together in promoting Spanish language and Ibero-American culture in the United States, reports Latin American Herald Tribune.
The latest issue features the Casa del Lector's initiative “Aprender a leer con todos los sentidos” (Learn to read with all your senses), the beginning of a new readers club in the cloud with Rosa Montero and many other news.
The Oscar winner actress is ARS's Amigo del Español this month. In an extensive interview, she told us how important it is for her to raise her child as a bilingual, what family means to her, and why taking risks has been so important in her career.
The movie, based on Antonio Muñoz Molina's novel, will be available at Días de Cine Reading Club until March 3rd, 2013. This initiative is sponsored by the America Reads Spanish program and the American Library Association to promote literature and the Spanish language in American libraries and universities.
Multicultural creative agency LatinWorks and consumer research consultancy EthniFacts conduct the study "The PLUS+ Identity — Shifting Paradigms and the Future of Latino Culture in the US" that reveals that Latinos today are less apt to embrace a “neither from here, the U.S., nor from there, the country of origin” perspective, and more likely to embrace an ambicultural there identity.
