Lectures

Human Rights in Mexico: Killing You Softly with Aid
Carlos Spector, Immigration Lawyer, El Paso, Texas

November 6, 1:30 p.m.
UNM Student Union Building Lobo A&B

Carlos Spector, immigration lawyer from El Paso, who works with Mexicans seeking political asylum in the United States, will speak on "Human Rights in Mexico: Killing You Softly With Aid" at UNM on November 6, 2009.

Among his clients is Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, a Mexican reporter, recently released after a seven month stint in an immigration detention center in El Paso. Mr. Gutierrez Soto’s harrowing tale of escape and Spector's public plea for Gutiérrez Soto's political asylum in the United States is the cover story in a recent issue of Mother Jones magazine.

Please join us to hear more about the important connection between the drug war in Mexico and current trends in immigration

University Libraries is hosting this lecture in conjunction with the UNM Lobo Reading Experience. For more information on other library events please visit elibrary.unm.edu/news or call 505.277.0818. You can also find information at libguides.unm.edu/reading.

Exhibits

Have you read Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration by Sam Quinones? The University Libraries has many resources related to the book’s stories about the United States-Mexico border and migration between those two countries.

Fall Semester in the
Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery
2nd floor of Zimmerman Library
Opening Reception October 7th, 4-6 p.m.

Of Guns and Dreams: Reflections on Migration between the US and Mexico, an exhibition in Zimmerman Library’s Herzstein Latin American Reading Room, highlights some of these collections. We hope these images and stories will inspire discussion in class, with friends, and at home.

The photographs and posters on display come from the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters, the Douglas Kent Hall U.S.-Mexican Border Photograph Collection and the Collection of Photographs of Mexico and Mexican People by Contemporary Photographers – all housed in the Center for Southwest Research at Zimmerman Library. The map of Mexico exhibited in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room comes from our Map and Geographic Information Centerlocated in the Centennial Science and Engineering Library. The news stories posted in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room are from various resources including licensed databases offered through the University Libraries web page at http://elibrary.unm.edu.

Check out the Lobo Reading Experience LibGuide at http://libguides.unm.edu/reading for more information about Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, including chapter summaries, book reviews, interviews, and lists of books and DVDs on themes relevant to this remarkable book. Many of these books are on display in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room and elsewhere in the University Libraries system; the DVDs are available for checkout at the Fine Arts and Design Library.

Associated events:

September 29th at Noon in the Herzstein Reading Room
Brown Bag: Sin Fronteras: The Border, Immigration and Latinas/os

October 7th, 4-6 pm
Opening Reception for the Exhibit in the Herzstein Latin American Gallery

November 6th, 1:30 pm in the Lobo Room, Student Union Building
Human Rights in Mexico: Killing You Softly with Aid
Carlos Spector, Immigration Lawyer & Activist, El Paso Texas

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NEWS

LibQual+ Survey of Library Services Underway

The University Libraries is currently participating in a national survey to assess library quality. A random group of UNM faculty and students have been chosen to participate and have been contacted by email. If you received an email asking you to participate we encourage you to complete the survey. The assessment will be done by using the Association of Research Libraries sponsored LibQUAL+ instrument to measure library service quality and identify best practices. Approximately 180 other universities are also participating in this year's survey and those results, together with ours, will further assist us in improving the quality of the University Libraries' services. For more information see the LibQual+ website.

Automobile book display at Parish Library

Books relating to the production, marketing and business of automobiles are on display at Parish Memorial Library through November 23. These books are available for check out to staff, students and faculty.

Stop and see the books, license plates and an extensive collection of HOT WHEELS - including some really cool low riders! There is a car logo quiz - try it! It's harder than you think!

Books on display:

• Advertising and the motor-car


• American automobile advertising, 1930-1980: an illustrated history, Heon Stevenson


• The American car dealership, Robert Genat


• The American gas station, Michael Karl Witzel


• Auto opium: a social history of American automobile design, David Gartman


• Battle for the beetle the untold story of the post-war battle for Adolf Hitler's giant Volkswagen factory and the Porsche-designed car that became an icon for generations around the globe, Karl Ludvigsen


• Buyways: billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape, Catherine Gudis


• The car market: a study of the statistics and dynamics of supply-demand equilibrium, M J H Mogridge


• A century on wheels, the story of Studebaker; a history, 1852-1952


• China shifts gears: automakers, oil, pollution, and development, Kelly Sims Gallagher


• Colonel Albert Pope and his American dream machines : the life and times of a bicycle tycoon turned automotive pioneer, by Stephen B. Goddard


• Dein KdF-Wagen, [translated from German by Inge Froebe]


• Economic tsunami: China's car industry will sweep away western car makers, Kevin Baker


• The Edsel affair: .... what went wrong?, C. Gayle Warnock


• Entre el corporativismo productivista y la participacion de los trabajadores: globalizacion y relaciones industriales en la industria automotriz mexicana, Ludger Pries


• The Ford agency: a pictorial history, Henry L. Dominguez


• Ford at fifty, 1903-1953


• The Ford Pinto case: a study in applied ethics, business, and technology, edited by Douglas Birsch and John H. Fielder


• 40 years, 20 million ideas : the Toyota suggestion system, Yuzo Yasuda [translated by Fredrich Czupryna]


• Getting the bugs out: the rise, fall, and comeback of Volkswagen in America, David Kiley


• Golden wheels: the story of the automobiles made in Cleveland and northeastern Ohio, 1892-1932, Richard Wager


• High noon in the automotive industry, Helmut Becker


• Korean dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung, Donald Kirk


• The machine that changed the world, James P. Womack, et al.Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos


• Magic motors 1930, Brooks T. Brierley


• Merging traffic: the consolidation of the international automobile industry, John A.C. Conybeare


• Saab : the innovator, Mark Chatterton


• My forty years with Ford, Charles E. Sorensen


• 100 Jahre Daimler-Benz : das Unternehmen, von Max Kruk und Gerold Lingnau


• One hundred years of FIAT: 1899-1999 : products, faces, images


• Rouge : pictured in its prime: covering the years 1917-1940, Ford R. Bryan


• Selling the all-American wonder: the World War II consumer advertising of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., Frederic L. Coldwell


• Six men who built the modern auto industry, Richard A. Johnson


• Taurus: the making of the car that saved Ford, Eric Taub


• Trabajadores en el cambio industrial: estudio de una empresa del sector automotriz , Rainer Dombois


• The world car: the future of the automobile industry, Stuart Sinclair

Addressing the Public Safety Crisis in Indian Country

"Addressing the Public Safety Crisis in Indian Country" is the topic of a brown bag and lecture to be given by Kevin K. Washburn, Dean and Professor of Law, University of New Mexico Law School on November 11th, 2009.. The noon brown bag will be held in the Herzstein Latin American Conference Room on the second floor of Zimmerman Library. The lecture will be held at 3:30 pm in the Willard Reading in the West Wing of Zimmerman Library. The event is sponsored by the University Libraries' Indigenous Nations Library Program.

Each decade, the media re-discovers the deplorable state of public safety in Indian country and declares it to be a crisis. The crisis is real and severe and it has gradually been getting worse. Crisis levels of crime, particularly against women and children, have come the reflect the baseline in Indian country. Professor Washburn will describe the structural problems with the criminal justice system in Indian country and will argue that the crisis may continue as long as tribes must continue to rely on the federal and state governments to provide criminal justice in Indian country. As in the areas of healthcare and education, the problem will likely only be successfully addressed when other governments recognize tribal self-determination and tribal governments are made primarily responsible for addressing the crime problem.

Trial Databases Available

University Libraries currently has trial access to: Literature Resource Center, Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources, and Grzimek's Animal Life Online. To use one of these during the test period visit the Trial Databases Page.

These electronic resources, offered by private library vendors, are currently being evaluated by the UNM University Libraries. Some of these resources may be limited to computers with a UNM network connection (computers in the main campus library locations and ITS Pods or computers using a UNM dialup connection).

If the resource is licensed and/or purchased at the end of the trial period, it will then be accessible from the list of All Databases accessible from the UNM University Libraries homepage or by following the "Find Articles" link in the main navigation bar.

Celebrating the Life and Landscapes of Tony Hillerman

UNM Foundation to Present Special Tribute to Tony Hillerman

Open Access Week October 19-23

Open Access http://www.openaccessweek.org/ is a growing global movement to make research freely available through the internet. In the traditional scholarly publication model researchers provide research results to journals for free, and subscriptions to these journals are sold back to the universities. Many times these subscriptions cost thousands of dollars and libraries are unable to purchase subscriptions to all journals in every field. Because some journals are not available in the library, scholars and students may not have access to important research findings. The Open Access movement is encouraging researchers to deposit their work in Open Access repositories, such as DSpace at UNM https://repository.unm.edu/dspace/, or to submit their work to Open Access journals (see the Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/).

Please see the following videos for more information:

http://www.vimeo.com/7048906

http://vimeo.com/6973160

For more information about Open Access at UNM please contact Amy Jackson, Digital Initiatives Librarian, at amyjacks@unm.edu or 277-1207.

50,000 items in the New Mexico Digital Collections

Explore the digital collections of libraries, archives and museums across New Mexico. 50,000 items and growing. New Mexico Digital Collections is hosted by University of new Mexico Libraries with funding from the UNM Center for Regional Studies.

If you missed Annie Proulx in June...

"Coming Out of the Mountains," a lecture about life and writing by Annie Proulx. Presented on June 20 at 6 p.m. in the West Wing of Zimmerman Library, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. One of two Summer Sunset Lectures hosted by University Libraries, 2009. Low-res mp4 file is available on DSpace for online viewing. To watch a full resolution version of this lecture, visit the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections located in Zimmerman Library.

e-Research Lecture Podcast

University Libraries hosted a talk "Exploiting and providing research data: finding strategies to help researchers" on Friday, September 18, 2009. The presentation by Professor Malcolm Atkinson Director of the e-Science Institute and National e-Science Centre and Professor of e-Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and Professor David De Roure, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK was exciting for UNM faculty and students. Listen here: e-research-lecture-Sept-18-09 This file is approximately 16 mb.

CSWR Receives Grant for LaDonna Harris Collection

The Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections was awarded $50,175 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to process the LaDonna Harris Papers, including the records of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO). LaDonna Harris, an Albuquerque resident for many years, has been an ardent advocate and activist for Native American equality and social justice for more than 4 decades. She is the founder (1970) and president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, an organization dedicated to facilitating initiatives and opportunities to enrich the cultural, political, and economic lives of Indigenous peoples around the world.

Harris is a member of the Comanche Tribe and was born and raised in Oklahoma. She moved to Washington, D.C. from Oklahoma in 1965 after her husband was elected to the U. S. Senate. In the sixties and seventies she became a nationally known activist on behalf of Native Americans. She was appointed by Lyndon Johnson to serve on the National Council on Indian Opportunity in 1967 and over the years she served on many national and international commissions. During the Carter presidency she was appointed to UNESCO and as special advisor to the Office of Economic Opportunity. In the 1980s and 1990s she also founded the National Indian Housing Council and National Indian Business Association.

The eighteen month project will be directed by Mike Kelly, director of the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections. Beth Silbergleit is the project archivist and she will be assisted by two graduate fellows, Max Fitzpatrick and Ashley Shelly. Fitzpatrick is an M.A. candidate in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. student in Sociology. Shelly comes to UNM from the University of Massachusetts as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology.

The AIO continues to serve native people around the world and the CSWR is committed to preserving their record of achievement for future generations.

LA-ENERGAIA: Energy Policy, Regulation, and Dialogue in Latin America

University Libraries and the Latin American and Iberian Institute have received a four-year grant of $187.041 from the U.S. Department of Education for the LA-ENERGAIA project. The project involves collecting, translating, analyzing, and disseminating information about energy policy, regulation, and dialogue in Latin America.

This will include government policies, international treaties, and other issues regarding energy policy with respect to natural resources, as well as alternative and renewable sources of energy. The focus will encompass regional and international energy policies and their economic and social impact. While Spanish and Portuguese materials will be collected, particular attention will be given to the single largest transnational indigenous group in the hemisphere - the Quechua speaking population of Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina. The project will use sophisticated, technological solutions to build an easy to use knowledge base that will be available to educational, research, and policy-oriented interests in the United States, Latin America, and the world at large.

The three project objectives are to

1) create a collection of existing materials,

2) produce new, value-added services and products, and

3) engage in project outreach and dissemination.

Project products and services will include:

1) a daily, interactive, current awareness service on energy issues ENERGAIA-L;

2) an original, analytical newsletter NotiEn, produced monthly;

3) a collection in the UNM institutional repository DSpaceUNM that will hold the Latin American energy policy collections, which will include multimedia materials in various languages with English language metadata;

4) an English language energy policy portal LAKH-EN;

5) an educational database RETANet for educators to create and share educational materials regarding energy issues;

6) LA-ENERGAIA Community Portal with national virtual communities-of-practice (VcoP) for collaboration; and

7) a Latin American energy policy conference with experts on issues regarding energy policy formulation, education, renewable and alternative sources of energy, and impacts on indigenous peoples.