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Just back from a day-long, productive Advisory Board meeting at #Iberoamerican Institute in Berlin ( https://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/en/home.html ) -no time to see Margaret Qualley at the Berlinale 300m away
. #Latinoamericanistas, here are a few figures and links regarding IAI that may be useful. 1/8
. #Latinoamericanistas, here are a few figures and links regarding IAI that may be useful. 1/8
#LIBRARY: ca. 1.1 m monographs (24K e-books); 60K journals; 88 databanks; another 12.5K e-media; 40K sound carriers; 6.3K films; 75K maps; 116K slides, photos, postcards; 5K posters; 1.2K graphics; 19 instit. archives, 350K newspaper cuttings. Ongoing coop. digitalisation... 2/8
See IAI's OPAC https://www.iaicat.de/ catalogue and, esp. for e-media, its discovery system Ibero-Search: https://iberosearch.de . For special collections: https://sondersammlungen.iai.spk-berlin.de/en/special-collections.html (notable digital collections, esp. cultural magazines: https://digital.iai.spk-berlin.de/viewer/ ).
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#RESEARCH, with nat./internat. partners and focused on ' #Knowledge Production and #Cultural Transfers: #LatinAmerica in #Transregional Contexts": https://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/en/research.html. Guest researchers (70 in 2019) https://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/en/research/guest-researchers.html; scholarships and fellows (14 and 2 in 2019) 4/8
https://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/en/grants.html . Third-party funded projects https://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/en/third-party-funded-projects.html and on-demand supply of (German-based) academic communities https://fid-lateinamerika.de/es/ . #Publications: several series of monographs/ed. vols, three journals, working papers - most Open Acccess Gold... 5/8
...and in German, Spanish, Portuguese, and English: https://publications.iai.spk-berlin.de/content/index.xml.
EVENTS: 88 acad./cult. outreach events in 2019 (foci: 250th anniversary of A. von Humboldt; UNESCO year of indigenous languages; 25 years partnership Berlin-Buenos Aires), https://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/en/events.html . 6/8
EVENTS: 88 acad./cult. outreach events in 2019 (foci: 250th anniversary of A. von Humboldt; UNESCO year of indigenous languages; 25 years partnership Berlin-Buenos Aires), https://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/en/events.html . 6/8
See IAI Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iai.berlin/ and blogs: https://fid-lateinamerika.de/blog/ and https://cineiberoamericanoberlin.com/ . IAI is part of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation ( https://www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/about-us/spk-institutions/?L=1) and will turn 90 this year 7/8
