Latin American Studies Links
The following sites provide additional resources for those interested in or working with Latin American Studies.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
http://www.dloc.com/
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections. Collections include newspapers, photographs, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, official historical documents, and historic and contemporary maps. Future collections will feature numeric data for local ecosystems, oral and popular histories, travel accounts, literature, and musical expressions.
Outreach World
http://www.outreachworld.org
The product of a collaboration of 120 federally-funded National Resource Centers, Outreach World is an online community that provides resources to teachers in foreign languages and international and area studies at the pre-collegiate level. The website offers a searchable database that allows educators to locate materials sorted by region, subject, country, grade level, time period, and resource type. The site also provides information on professional development and advertises opportunities for educations to travel overseas.
http://www.nble.org
The Network of Business Language Educators (NOBLE) is a space which provides opportunities for business and foreign language faculty to develop interdisciplinary relationships, exchange ideas, and to make connections with other professionals in order to better prepare students to excel in the 21st century work place.
List of Language Resource Centers
http://nflrc.msu.edu/index-1.php
The common goal of the LRCs is to promote the learning and teaching of foreign languages in the United States. The LRCs create language-learning materials, offer professional development workshops, and conduct research on foreign language learning. Presently there are fifteen Title VI Language Resource Centers nationwide.
Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs
http://www.claspprograms.org
The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) is comprised of 50 institutions of higher education with a solid commitment to Latin American Studies. CLASP promotes all facets of Latin American Studies with an emphasis on K-12. The CLASP website provides a list of all member institutions with links to their websites, many of which provide online resources for K-12 teachers. CLASP also offers small grants to K-12 schools in support of Latin American Studies-related workshops and/or speakers.
National Resource Centers for Latin American Studies
http://www.claspprograms.org/members.htm
There are currently 53 Centers for Latin American Studies that are members of CLASP. This page provides direct links to all centers.
Latin American Network Information Center
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC), sponsored by the University of Texas, facilitates access to internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. LANIC’s editorially-reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet.
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
http://spice.stanford.edu
The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) provides multi-disciplinary curriculum materials on international themes. SPICE offers free lesson plans and reasonably-priced curriculum units.
Latin American Data Base
http://ladb.unm.edu/
http://ladb.unm.edu/retanet/
The Latin American Data Base is a free forum on Latin America and Iberia hosted by the University of New Mexico. LADB produces three weekly electronic publications (Sourcemex, NotiCen and NotiSur) and maintains an on-line searchable database of over 24,000 articles as well as Latin American journals. LADB also offers 66 free lesson plans on Latin America on its Resources for Teaching About the Americas (Retanet) web site. The Retanet project has ended, but all resources are still available.