HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY BR1GHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PROVO. UTAH HAROLD B. LEB LIBRARY BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY ' PKOVO, H WINDWARD, LEEWARD, AND MAIN: CARIBBEAN STUDIES AND LIBRARY RESOURCES Final Report and Working Papers of the Twenty- fourth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials University of California Los Angeles, California June 17-22, 1979 Sonia Merubia Rapporteur General Laurence Hallewell Editor, Working Papers Coordinated by Suzanne Hodgman Executive Secretary SALALM SECRETARIAT Madison, Wisconsin 1980 This series is edited in the SALALM Secretariat, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Cover design by Roger Roche. Copyright © by SALALM, Inc. 1 98C HAROLD B. LEE Ll8RAR> PROVO UTAH FOREWORD The papers of SALALM XXIV have been a pleasure to edit, particularly for their most gratifying unity of theme, even though they fall short of unanimity in its definition. Some authors embraced almost all the Eastern Americas between Dixie and Brazil. A few took Mexico as implicitly excluded. Several left out Central America, or all but Belize. One author clearly re- garded the Guianas as a South American concern, and there are some papers which limit themselves to the islands of the American archipelago. My choice of a somewhat eccentric title is contrived to stress this problem of definition, for no one term seems entirely satisfactory. Columbus's shortcomings as a geographer imposed the misnomer Indies upon all the New World (and the confusing gentilic Indians upon all the aboriginal in- habitants) . It soon became necessary to prefix a clarifying West, at least in the languages of those colonizing nations with Asiatic ambitions. But as Mexico, Peru, and all the other countries of the Spanish Main began to acquire their separate identities, the area covered by the term began to contract rapidly. Only the Dutch continued using West-Indie" for all their American colonies - even the Brazilian North-east while they kept possession of it. The English discriminated to a nicety: by the end of the eighteenth century Jane Austen's Mrs. Croft in Persuasion could declare: "We do not call Ber- muda or Bahama, you know, the West Indies." (Chapter 8.) The short-lived West Indies Federation of the 1960s limited the term even further, excluding not only Miss Austen's Bermuda and Bahamas, but also British Guiana (now Guyana), British Honduras (now Belize), and a number of smaller colonies: the Turks and Caicos, the Caymans, and the British Virgins. A word popular with the French and Dutch is Antilles, meaning just the islands, and divided into Greater and Lesser. The area also got divided into Windward and Leeward, for the convenience of masters of sailing vessels - but as interpretation depended on where one was, they came to vary from time to time and from language to language. English (sublimely ignoring all the non- English-speaking territories) finally settled for putting St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Grenada, and (until 1889) Tobago, and possibly Barbados (so inconsiderately aloof from the general north-south chain of islands) to wind'ard and all the more northerly islands as far as Puerto Rico to lee'ard. Middle America would have been a useful description of our region in the widest sense, but that expression, like its synonym Central America, has been irrecoverably appropriated for the republics 6*f the isthmus. The current vogue word is Caribbean (with its useful extension Circum- Caribbean) , even though the Caribs never got west of Trinidad nor north of the Virgin Islands. And, at least in the form Commonwealth Caribbean, the word is stretched far beyond the shores of the Caribbean Sea to embrace Guyana. In the last analysis, language has to follow Humpty Dumpty and demonstrate its mas- tery by making words bear whatever meaning be required for contemporary needs. If Latin America, the politically-loaded invention of Napoleon Ill's Mexican adventure, can be strained to include entities as un-Latin as Barbados or Bermuda, why cavil if we bring the Caribbean almost to the delta of the Amazon? Laurence Hallewell Editor, Working Papers iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Page FOREWORD iii INTRODUCTION ix PROGRAM AND RESOLUTIONS Program and Schedule of Activities 3 Resolutions 16 SUMMARY REPORTS OF THE SESSIONS Opening General Session 21 Pamela Howard Trends in Caribbean Studies Teaching and Research Programs and Their Library Implications 24 Colleen Trujillo Caribbean Resources in Europe and North America 27 Peter T. Johnson Caribbean Bibliography: State of the Art 28 Nan B. Rieman Round Table on Latin American Map Acquisitions 30 Paula A. Covington Program of the Subcommittee on Cuban Bibliography 32 Eudora Loh Round Table on Caribbean Bibliographies 33 Mary Gormly Bookdealer Panel Discussion 37 Sammy A. Kinard Caribbean Resources in the Americas 39 Elizabeth Mahan Special Services and Networking 41 Gayle Williams Second General Session 46 Sonia Merubia Use of Audio-Visual Materials in Teaching 51 Alice C. Keefer Final General Session: Reports of Substantive Committees and Business Meeting 53 Donald L. Gibbs ANNUAL REPORTS TO SALALM Page Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographic Activities, 1979 61 Haydee Piedracueva Microfilming Projects Newsletter, 1979 111 Suzanne Hodgman WORKING PAPERS Caribbean Acronym List 125 Juan R. Freud enthal Summary of OAS Activities in the Caribbean 131 Alice C. Keefer Caribbean Teaching and Research Programs in Canada 149 Enid F. D'Oyley The Caribbean in British Education: Teaching and Research on the Caribbean in the United Kingdom 153 Elizabeth Thomas-Hope Caribbeana Resources in the United Kingdom 169 Elizabeth Thomas-Hope Libraries with Caribbean Collections and Institutes with Caribbean Teaching and Research Programs in the Netherlands 181 Juliette L. M. G. Henket-Hoornweg Caribbean Library Resources in Puerto Rico 193 Neida Pagan Jimenez La Bibliografia en la Republica Dominicana 199 Marisol Floren R. and Prospero Mella Chavier Periodization: A Problem in Recent Cuban Historical Literature 225 Graciella Cruz-Taura Caribbean Studies at the University of the West Indies, 1963 to the Present: From Chaos towards Order 235 Fitzroy Andre Baptiste Caribbeana Resources in the English-Speaking Caribbean 263 Albertina A. Jefferson and Alvona Alleyne The Bibliography of the English-Speaking Caribbean Islands 285 Valerie Bloomfield Bibliography of Guyana: An Outline Survey 313 Joel Benjamin vi Page The Environment for Library Networking in the Caribbean 327 Louella Vine Wetherbee Networking for the Caribbean: An Oversimplification 335 John G. Veenstra Caribbean Religion: A Survey and Bibliography 339 Terry Dahlin and Reed Nelson Biographical Information about the Authors 353 INTRODUCTION The choice of a theme for SALALM XXIV - Caribbean Research and Resources - was the logical outcome of a combination of circumstances. First, SALALM' s general concern with this region had been highlighted only once, nearly twenty years earlier, when the 1960 Seminar had the same emphasis. Second, growing international interest in the area had been heightened by acute economic problems with political and social upheaval in many Caribbean states in the late seventies. Indeed, after the theme had been selected and a few months before the Seminar, the Eastern Caribbean area was identified for the first time by the American Secretary of State Cyrus Vance as a "trouble zone." The need for greater awareness and preparedness on the part of librarians in particular, and Latin Americanists as a whole, was thus underlined. Third, SALALM was actively discussing a joint meeting with ACURIL (Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries), to be held in the eighties. And, last, it was felt that this theme for SALALM XXIV would appropriately culminate the first ever Caribbean-based Presidential Year in this organization's history. The programme was conceived in direct pursuit of SALALM 's stated objectives - "the development of library collections of Latin Americana in support of educational research, the control and dissemination of bibliographic information about all types of Latin American publications, and the promotion of cooperative efforts to achieve better library ser- vices for institutions and individuals studying about Latin America and the Caribbean." The papers focus initially on background information, four of them (Baptiste, Thomas-Hope, D'Oyley, and Keefer) being devoted wholly to reviewing Caribbean Studies teaching and/or research programs in different areas. The teaching patterns revealed are similar everywhere, with the Caribbean being given peripheral treatment within subjects or wider area studies, no coordinating centers, and a general dearth of full-fledged programs. The need for promotion both within and outside the region in order to develop essentially Caribbean programs on an independent scale is stressed in most of these papers. A second group (Thomas-Hope, Jefferson and Alleyne, Pagan Jimenez, and Dahlin and Nelson) describes some of the library and special collec- tions which have been developed to support these programs; they stress areas of strength but also highlight gaps and the need for coordination of effort, and of these resources themselves, in the interest of improved service to researchers. Henket-Hoornweg combines the information on both these aspects for the Netherlands. Another group (Bloomf ield, Mella Chavier and Floren, Benjamin) examines the state of bibliographic control, identifying problems and deficiencies as well as achievements;