Bridging Borders, Sharing Knowledge: Case Studies from LACLI’s International Librarian Collaboration
Workshop | Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST
While Western academia embraces subscription-based library resources, Latin America has emerged as a leader in the open access movement. This presentation explores LACLI (lacli.info), a multilingual index of freely accessible resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies. Built by Brazilian, Mexican, and the U.S. students and librarians, LACLI rejects Western marketization and promotes equitable access to information. The presentation begins by exploring the project’s origins and its technical specifications. From there, two students will share their work as indexers followed by a librarian’s approaches to teaching with LACLI. The session will conclude with an interactive workshop in which attendees will test out different approaches to teaching with the project.
[This discussion will be recorded.]
Presenters: Eric Silberberg, Arely González Hernández, Maira Mojica Ramírez, and Jesús Alonso-Regalado
Eric Silberberg is Assistant Professor and Librarian for Instructional Design and Education at Queens College, City University of New York. His current research explores open access publishing in educational research and library services for teacher training programs in Mexico and the United States. He is committed to promoting equitable access to information through his role on the LACLI executive team.
Arely González Hernández (she/her) is a first-generation student and rising senior at the University at Albany, double majoring in Spanish and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. Her academic interests include second-language acquisition and exploring the experiences of immigrants from Latin America in the United States. After graduation, Arely plans to pursue a master’s in education.
Maira Mojica Ramírez is a second year undergrad at SUNY Albany double majoring in Economics and History, and planning on attending law school afterwards.
Jesús Alonso-Regalado is a subject librarian at the University at Albany, specializing in History, Latin American Studies, and Romance Languages.