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ABC Cultural, 1991-1992. Madrid: Prensa Española, 1993.
This is an interactive application with text and color and black and white graphics on CD-ROM, covering numbers 1 to 61 of ABC Cultural, the notable Spanish weekly magazine dedicated to the world of culture--art, music, dance, literature, theater--especially of Spain and Hispanic America. Spanish. 

ADMYTE: Archivo digital de manuscritos y textos españoles. Madrid: Micronet and Ministerio de Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional, 1992- . v.0- .
The two disks, 0 and 1, are the first products of an ongoing project to preserve on CD-ROM all works written in Spanish up to 1615. Included are 125 complete Spanish medieval texts in ASCII and facsimile. Among the texts are encyclopedias, dictionaries, grammars, legal, scientific, religious, and literary texts, chronicles, travel books, books of chivalry, and nobility. Some of the most notable include the Book of Marco Polo, Cantar de Mio Cid, Siete partidas of Alfonso X, and the laws and orderanzas of Ferdinand V and Isabella I. User manual available. Spanish. 

Chicano Database. Berkeley: Chicano Studies Library, University of California 1990- . Semiannual
The most comprehensive bibliographic resource on Chicano Studies. It contains over 40,000 bibliographic citations of books, journal articles and other sources, published from 1960s to the present, about the Mexican-American/U.S. Latino/Mexican experience in all subject areas. The database combines the citations from the Chicano Periodical Index, 1967-88; the Chicano Index, 1989; Arte Chicano: An annotated Bibliography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981; Chicano Anthology Index; and UCLA's Latinos and AIDS database. English and Spanish. 

CODICE 90: XI Censo general de población y vivienda, 1990, resultados definitivos. México: Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática, 1992. 
The 1990 Mexican population and housing census provides statistical data, maps, charts, and graphs. Basically answers such questions as how many people, how they differ in various states, regions and locales, by gender, age, and indigenous language, as well as data on mortality, migration, education, housing and composition of the labor force. Documentation in Spanish. 

CD-MAGAZINE. Madrid: CD-MEDIA SL, Nov/Dec 1994: Año 0, número 3 . Bimonthly.
This is an interactive bimonthly published magazine, with music, taped interviews, scenes from theater plays, and much more information. The magazine contains news about music, cinema, art, theater, literature, geography, technology, economy, sports, etc. 

CD-PRESS. México: CD-ROM de México, 1991- . Annual.
It contains over 200,000 full text news articles from daily local, state, and national newspapers and news magazines. A partial list of news sources includes : La Jornada, Uno Mas Uno, Excelsior, El Financiero, El Sol de México, El Universal, El Dia, El Nacional, Punto, El Heraldo, Novedades, Proceso, Dia Latinoamericano, Diario de Morelos, El Financiero de Morelos, El Regional del Sur. Spanish. 

CRIES: Información socioeconómica y política: Centroamérica, Nicaragua, El Caribe. Colima, Mexico: Universidad de Colima, 1993.
Created by the Centro de Documentation, Coordinadora Reginal de Investigaciones Economicas y Sociales (CRIES), this disk contains twelve databases covering social, economic and political information on Central America and the Caribbean. Among the databases are bibliographies, directories and indexes of regional journals and Nicaraguan newspapers from 1979-1992. Spanish. 

Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, 1994. México: Presidencia de la República, Dirección General de Communicación Social, 1994.
The first electronic version of this important biographical source. Earlier years are also available in the Boeckmann Center in book format. Contains 2551 short biographies with photographs of federal and state officials from the executive, legislative and judicial branches, executives in strategic state enterprises, diplomats and representatives of international organizations ; a personal name directory, and organization charts of the federal executive branch. Spanish. 

Fondo de Cultura Económica. Catálogo general. México: Universidad de Colima, 1992- . Annual.
A catalog of all books and serials published from 1934 to 1990 by the Fondo de Cultura Económica, one of Mexico's major publishers. It contains 4,000 titles searchable by key words, series or date. Includes an index of FCE periodicals, such as El Trimestre económico, Dianoia and La Gaceta del FCE. Optional search menus in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French. 

HISPANAM: Bibliografía de lengua y literatura española e hispanoamericana. México: CONACYT, 1992- . Frequency Unknown.
Contains 50,000 references related to Spanish and Spanish American literature and language published in the bibliography of the Nueva revista de filología hispánica of the Colegio de México, between 1973 and 1991, and from the Acervo de Literatura Hispanoamericana, a collection created especially for this database. Library has disco 0. Updates planned. Spanish and English. 

HLAS / CD : Handbook of Latin American Studies. Library of Congress & Fundación MAPFRE América. Vols. 1-53 (1936-1994).
The Handbook of Latin American Studies is an annotated bibliography of works on Latin America covering various fields in both the humanities and the social sciences. Volumes have been published annually since 1936, by Harvard University Press (v. 1-13), the University Presses of Florida (v. 14-40), and The University of Texas Press (v. 41-53). Editorial work is the responsibility of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress of the United States. This retrospective version includes all bibliographical entries for volumes 1-53, as well as the introductory essays included in each of the volumes, totalling some 250,000 records. 

Latin American Studies II. Baltimore: National Information Services Corporation, 1992- . Semiannual.
Includes over 110,000 abstracts and full-text summaries from news sources in Latin America and the U.S., 1986 to recent months, focused largely on political, economic, socio-economic, business, and legal issues throughout Latin America. Citations are drawn from the INFO-SOUTH database of the North-South Center, University of Miami, the Latin America Database (LADB) of the Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico, the Library of Congress' World Law Index, Part I -- Hispanic Nations, with references to laws decrees and regulations, of twenty-nine Spanish-speaking nations and the Latin American Information Bank. English and Spanish. 

Máscaras: La otra cara de México... México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1992.
Contains an electronic book entitled Máscaras: La otra cara de México, previously published in book format, and two additional databases: the Catálogo de México a través de los libros, and the Catálogo de publicaciones de la UNAM, the largest university press in Mexico. Máscaras covers the history and roles of masks, from pre-Columbian times to the present, in secular and religious dances and festivals. Some images of the masks are in color. Spanish. 

MLA International Bibliography. Saint Paul: H.W. Wilson, 1993- . Quarterly.
The most important index to literary criticism for Spanish and Latin American authors, although international in scope. The database, with over 350,000 citations, indexes books and journal articles in the disciplines of language, literature, linguistics and folklore, covering 1981 to recent months. Also available in the Doheny Library Reference Center.