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LATIN AMERICA
AND CARIBBEANS
Seminar
on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
SALALM held its first meeting
in 1956 when about 30 librarians and professors and one international
bookseller met at Chinsegut Hill, Florida, to discuss and try
to solve problems "concerned with the selection, acquisition,
and processing of library materials from the Latin American
nations and the dependent territories of the Caribbean." Since
its founding, SALALM has provided the only national and international
forum focused exclusively on collection development and services
in libraries with Latin American collections. SALALM's primary
missions are the control and dissemination of bibliographic
information about all types of Latin American publications and
the development of library collections of Latin Americana in
support of educational research.
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