The forty-fifth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) will be held in Long Beach, California, on May 27-31, 2000, co-hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles Library and Latin American Center, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 1999/2000. The theme of the conference will be ANDEAN STUDIES: NEW TRENDS AND LIBRARY RESOURCES.
As they face the new millennium, the countries of the Andean region as well as the rest of Latin America have made significant achievements including a long unrealized goal of democracy and relative economic stability. Even a centuries-old border dispute has been settled between Ecuador and Peru. This conflict was the last major one of its kind in Latin America, and its resolution marks a new era of peace and stability for the area. Nevertheless, many obstacles still face these countries. The social problems caused by poverty, corruption, inadequate education, and health coverage, judicial insecurity, and lack of accountability of policy makers are only a few of the issues that Andean nations must overcome in the new millennium to improve the everyday life of its citizens.
The conference will examine the status of Andean studies as we enter the 21st century. A series of workshops, panels, and round tables will be presented by librarians, scholars, book dealers, and publishers from Latin America, the United States, and Europe. The sessions will be scholarly in nature, covering many of the topics mentioned above, and may deal with critical issues surrounding collection development and the preservation ofmaterials focusing on Andean countries. In the age of new technologies, some sessions will explore the impact of these advances, and on issues of access to research collections specializing on the Andean region.
The majority of the meetings and the book exhibits will take place in the Long Beach Hilton Hotel located in Long Beach, California, but one afternoon and evening will be spent at the UCLA campus, where activities will include panel sessions and tours of the libraries and other campus sites. Invitations and registration materials for SALALM XLV will be mailed in January 2000. Information on the content of the program can be obtained from César Rodríguez, President, SALALM; Yale University Library, Latin American Collection; 130 Wall Street; New Haven, CT, 06520 (Tel:203-432-1835; Fax: 203-432-7231; E-mail: cesar.rodriguez@yale.edu).
Details concerning local arrangements are available from Eudora Loh and Barbara Valk; co-chairs, Local Arrangements Committee for SALALM XLV;University of California, Los Angeles, Latin American Center, 10349 Bunche Hall, Box 951447, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1447 (Eudora Loh - Tel: 310 825-1125; Fax: 310 206-4974; E-mail: eloh@library.ucla.edu; Barbara Valk -Tel: 310-825-0810; Fax: 310-206-2634; E-mail: bvalk@ucla.edu).
Organized in 1956 under the aegis of the Organization of American States Library and Bibliographic Development Program, and incorporated as an independent association in 1968, SALALM continues to address the needs of librarians, booksellers, educators and others concerned with building library collections of Latin Americana and Caribbeana and making them available for scholarly use. Recent conferences, hosted by Vanderbilt University (1999), University of Puerto Rico Libraries (1998), the Libraryof Congress (1997), New York University Libraries (1996), and the University of Georgia Libraries (1995) have attracted an increasing numberof participants from around the world.
