Advances of the Latin American Regional IAMSLIC Group
Maria Clara Ramirez Jauregui · 2006
In this year of 2005 our goals are to work in the following areas of the Latin-American Group: • Affiliation: to increase the group’s affiliation in Central and South America. It is very important the affiliation to IAMSLIC and to the Latin-American Regional Group. We will continue to promoting the affiliation to IAMSLIC, sending information to several prospect institutions and also updating the information in the web site of the Group, in order to provide information and its actualization in both languages: English and Spanish. http://ola.icmyl.unam.mx/larg. • Elaboration of the Latin-American Union Catalog, this action is under way with the help of Steve Watkins and German Ramirez. We expect by midyear to have the serials holdings of most of the groups participants. • To support the document delivery project, by allocating the funds to some of the institutions in Central and South America, in order to promote the Latin-American collection. • To establish communication with participants via messenger in order to have a stronger, dynamic and interactive conversation with the Group, having as the main objective the growing and the advance of the Group. This action was started in April. • We have the maintenance and updating of the 2 e-mail lists (one of the Latin-American Regional Group and the another the prospects institutions). • The development of the EPCOR and ODINCARSA projects. ADVANCES During 2004-2005, we have been working in the following areas of the Latin-American Group: Affiliation: the goal to increase the group’s affiliation in Central and South America is very important for this emerging group, and in order to promote IAMSLIC affiliation, the membership brochure was translated into Spanish in October of 2004. We have contacted several prospective institutions and also updated the information on the web site of the Anderson, K.L. & C. Thiery (eds.). 2006. Information for Responsible Fisheries : Libraries as Mediators : proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference: Rome, Italy, October 10 – 14, 2005. Fort Pierce, FL: International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers.