2. International Contact and Cooperation: The Texas A&M University Libraries and Mexico
Thomas G. De Petro, M.L.I.S.
Asst. Professor & Engineering Librarian
IATUL Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, USA 2-7 June 2002

3. American Libraries (ALA) October 2001
Theme:
World
Culture,
Librarianship

4. TAMU and Mexico Mexico City Center
CONACYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologìa)
Study programs for students
Transnational Digital Library Project
Faculty Abroad Seminar
Transnational Interlibrary Agreement
El FORO, the Trans-Border Forum
Library Technical Services and Cataloging Joint Activities
Faculty Librarians Exchange – Visiting Professorship

8. CONACYT – Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologìa

14. INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO AUTONOMO DE MEXICO

15. Distant Neighbors / Vecinos distantes
My first conceptualization of Mexico as a distant neighbor came to me when I was working as a public librarian in Houston and saw this book. I had lived in Mexico for 3 months in 1983 while I attended language school there at the UNAM’s Center for the Instruction of Foreigners. At that time the population of Mexico was only 70,000, 000 people. Today it is over 100,000,000.
A U.K edition was subtitled “Inside the Volcano”

16. The U.S. Mexico border from the U.S. side.

17.                                                    
Mexico –
U.S. Border
Near San Diego,
California

18. “Maquladora” plant near Tijuana, Mexico.
(The term is used for a female worker at border factories.)
                                                                            

19. Factory in San Critobal de las Casas, Chiapas
                                                                            

20.                                                                       
Mexico City:
A good day
&
A bad day.

21.                                                  
Paseo de la Reforma
Mexico City
Home of the
Texas A&M
University Center.

22. Mexico: in the State of Chiapas,
on the southern border next to Guatemala
                                                                            

23.                                                 
Zapatista
military leader
sub-commander
Marcos escorts
Commander
Ramona,
the Tzotzil Indian
Commander.

24. Pyramids of the Sun and Moon near Mexico City
                                                                            

25.                                                         
UNAM
Universidad
Nacional
Autónoma
de México
The National
Autonomous
University of
Mexico
Famous
main
library
building

26. “Lone Star” : Director John Sayles’ Texas / Mexico movie
Also of note:
“Men with Guns”
by John Sales
and
“Amores Perros” by
Alejandro González Iñárritu