1. Críticas wants to send you a free issue

Roy Futterman of the new review journal Críticas: An English Speaker's Guide to the Latest Spanish-Language Titles called to say that if you haven't seen the mag yet he'll put one in the mail to you, gratis. E-mail him at r.futterman@cahners.com or give him a call at 212-463-6825, and visit the website at http://www.libraryjournal.com/criticas.asp

2. Online government and labor information in Spanish

From: Anne Fullerton afullerton@afscme.org

You might want to add a link to HiCitizen en Español. They theoretically are a directory of all US government information in Spanish (IMHO, it's incomplete but it's the only thing I've found so far that does this). The address is http://www.hicitizen.com/content/NavigationalServlet?page=2&NodeId=1150

I have developed a collection of Spanish language labor-related links at http://www.afscme.org/spanish/enlaces.htm

I'm adding your Bibliotecario to that list. Thanks for your work in this area.

Anne Fullerton
AFSCME Information Center

[Thanks to Anne, HiCitizen is now on 'Tu Bibliotecario Electrónico'. Mil gracias also to the good folks at the Librarian's Index to the Internet for adding TBE this week.]

3. Chomsky and Z Magazine in Spanish online

Manuel Bello <jbello@uvmnet.edu> points us toward the Biblioteca Virtual Noam Chomsky, with more than 50 translations of Chomsky's articles available, full text: http://www.galeon.com/bvchomsky/. Also of interest to folks wary of dominant paradigms is the large and growing Spanish-language version of Z-net http://www.zmag.org/Spanish/index.htm

4. And if it's self-help you want...

Ida Jiménez <ida@elexito.com> wants you to know that www.elexito.com will be happy to sell you books and other materials dealing with personal development, finance, family relations, and other popular topics. Looking for Stephen Covey en español? They've got it.

Audio books are always in demand among busy self-actualizers, so www.spanishaudios.com deals exclusively in Spanish-language books on tape along those same lines. Visit the sites or call Ida at (954)-753-7474 or (305)-590-9000 to find out more.

5. Travel with Yahoo

Yahoo's Spanish-language portal http://espanol.yahoo.com/ this week adds a travel section ('Viajes') that helps trotamundos book flights, lodging, a car rentals.

6. Brag about your catalog!

Do the cataloging practices in your public library accommodate monolingual readers of Spanish by including 'extra' access points in their language? Do your Spanish-language and bilingual materials have records with subject headings, notes, or contents fields that use Spanish? Let me know, and I'll try to make you famous so that more libraries can imitate you...