Timbre roto. Grite!
In this morning’s email from H-LATAM, I received notice about the latest edition of Mundo Nuevo Nuevos Mundos, the electronic journal published by the Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains (CERMA) of L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
As I was rummaging through the journal’s inexhaustible collection of articles, bibliographies, summaries, announcements, reviews, I discovered the Guías para el investigador americanista. The guides include all those essential details that make research abroad so much easier and fun, and save time and frustration.
The guides include all pertinent addresses, access regulations, exterior and interior photographs, etc about almost every major archive and library in Santiago de Chile, London, Oxford, Sevilla, Buenos Aires and Rosario in Argentina, Ciudad de México, Puebla, Zacatecas, Morelia, Pátzcuaro, Tiripetío in México, and La Habana.
I clicked on the La Habana guide compiled by Romy Sanchez-Villar; the Spanish version was translated from the French by Gustavo Sanchez Perdomo. Sanchez-Villar attached some great photos to the French version of the guide.
I laughed with this one. The image captures Cuban humor–hysterical, just beyond exhaustion and tears.
The picture also made me think about what about digitized books online works and what does not and for whom.
