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Biblioteca Se Sentanemililis. La Experiencia De Una Biblioteca Comunitaria Desde Las Voces De Sus Actores, Guadalupe López Hernández Jan 2021

Biblioteca Se Sentanemililis. La Experiencia De Una Biblioteca Comunitaria Desde Las Voces De Sus Actores, Guadalupe López Hernández

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

El presente artículo comparte el proyecto de una biblioteca comunitaria, ubicada en una comunidad rural e indígena de México, desde las voces de quienes la idearon y construyeron; de los niños que la frecuentan y de los jóvenes responsables de atenderla. La historia “única” de la lectura que prevalece en el discurso hegemónico es la de una actividad escolar o de intelectuales, recientemente de actores o deportistas. Sin embargo, las prácticas de lectura son muchas y muy variadas, pero los discursos oficiales han legitimado solo algunas, invisibilizado otras que no son menos valiosas o legítimas y han creado falsas imágenes …


We’Ve Come A Long Way (Baby)! Or Have We? Evolving Intellectual Freedom Issues In The Us And Florida, L. Bryan Cooper, A.D. Beman-Cavallaro May 2018

We’Ve Come A Long Way (Baby)! Or Have We? Evolving Intellectual Freedom Issues In The Us And Florida, L. Bryan Cooper, A.D. Beman-Cavallaro

Works of the FIU Libraries

This paper analyzes a shifting landscape of intellectual freedom (IF) in and outside Florida for children, adolescents, teens and adults. National ideals stand in tension with local and state developments, as new threats are visible in historical, legal, and technological context. Examples include doctrinal shifts, legislative bills, electronic surveillance and recent attempts to censor books, classroom texts, and reading lists.

Privacy rights for minors in Florida are increasingly unstable. New assertions of parental rights are part of a larger conservative animus. Proponents of IF can identify a lessening of ideals and standards that began after doctrinal fruition in the 1960s …


Linking Old Librarianship To New: Aligning 5-Steps Of The Innovator's Dna In Creating Thematic Discovery Systems For The Everglades, L. Bryan Cooper, Margarita Perez Martinez May 2015

Linking Old Librarianship To New: Aligning 5-Steps Of The Innovator's Dna In Creating Thematic Discovery Systems For The Everglades, L. Bryan Cooper, Margarita Perez Martinez

Works of the FIU Libraries

This poster presentation from the May 2015 Florida Library Association Conference, along with the Everglades Explorer discovery portal at http://ee.fiu.edu, demonstrates how traditional bibliographic and curatorial principles can be applied to: 1) selection, cross-walking and aggregation of metadata linking end-users to wide-spread digital resources from multiple silos; 2) harvesting of select PDFs, HTML and media for web archiving and access; 3) selection of CMS domains, sub-domains and folders for targeted searching using an API.

Choosing content for this discovery portal is comparable to past scholarly practice of creating and publishing subject bibliographies, except metadata and data are housed in …