Cecilia Puerto
Reference Services
Library and Information Access
San Diego State University
Office: LA 1101H
Phone: 619-594-4629
Fax: 619-594-3270
cpuerto@mail.sdsu.edu
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Area of interest: Latin American women artists
Prior to my appointment at San Diego State University in 1994, I served a four-year stint as Multicultural Services librarian at California State University, Bakersfield, and spent two years as a postgraduate minority fellow at the Library of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
My interest in the art of Latin America began shortly after receiving a Master in Library and Information Science in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a newly minted reference librarian I became keenly aware of the lack of ready access to the written record of Latin American women's contributions to the history of art and set out to fill the need by by publishing the first reference book on the subject in 1996. My bibliography, Latin American Women Artists, Kahlo and Look Who Else (Greenwood, 1996), contains annotated references to close to 1,500 entries from books, periodicals, exhibition catalogues, dissertations, theses, and videorecordings on over 1,500 artists. I am updating this information via an online bibliographic archive, a project that of necessity will always be a work in progress given the field's dynamic growth and the critical attention it continues to receive.
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Created on 11/02/2005.
Last updated on 04/21/2006