Mission

The mission of ISiS is to provide a forum within SALALM for identifying, collecting, organizing, providing access to and preserving information resources from and about the Iberian Peninsula in support of education and research. The goal of the group is to continually develop SALALM's expertise in research trends related to Iberia, Ibero-American relations, and Iberian relations with Latin America. Furthermore, the group seeks to encourage, monitor, and evaluate changes in the publishing and distribution industries in Spain and Portugal.

Objectives

• Advise content providers on Iberian information sources.
• Influence the development of bibliographic resources.
• Outreach to documentalists, librarians, research institutes, and library and information schools.
• Maintain cooperative relationships with publishers, vendors and information distributors.
• Represent SALALM at other library and information science organizations interested in Iberia, including ALA WESS, associations and organizations in Iberia and beyond.
• Develop bibliographic instruction, reference and research aids that cover Iberian topics and assist researchers in the discovery of Iberian information resources.
• Maintain communication tools, including a website, to further these objectives.
• Meet during the SALALM annual conference.

ISiS Meeting Agendas

• 2006-2007

Book Fair Reports

• Librarian Activities at the Spanish National Book Fair - LIBER 2007 (Barcelona, October 3-5)
• Librarian Activities at the Spanish National Book Fair - LIBER 2006 (Madrid, September 27-29)

Interviews

• Interviews with ISiS and WESS librarians during LIBER 2007 - American Reads Spanish Television (click on "Eventos" and then "LIBER")

Guides

• Bookstores in Barcelona: A Brief Guide. Compiled by Lluís Agustí. Photos and editing by Claude H. Potts. October 2007.
• Bookstores in Madrid: A Brief Guide. Compiled by Jesús Alonso-Regalado. Photos by Claude H. Potts. October 2006.

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Images
Top left: Portrait of Luis de Camões in Lusiadas by Luis de Camões. Vol. 1. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade, 1800. John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Right: Cover of Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. London: Secker and Warburg, 1938. Daniel J. Leab Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.