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With the U.S. Government approval of educational exchange travel to Cuba, Dr. Ed Cortez from the School of Information Sciences joined a Special Libraries Research Delegation on a late October trip to the island nation. Cubans have been able to achieve notable success in information storage and retrieval systems over the years. The U.S. researchers were on a mission to understand the special challenges and the innovative solutions employed by the Cubans. Dr. Cortez was specifically interested in understanding the education of these information professions and the support they received.

Dr. Cortez and SIS staff attended the recent REFORMA Annual Conference in Denver Colorado from September 14 to 18.  REFORMA is the national association created in 1971 to promote library and information sciences to Latinos and the Spanish speaking communities.  Sessions at this conference mainly concentrated on two key areas:  how libraries can better serve their Latino communities and how universities can recruit Latinos into librarianship.