New books: November

UW Libraries' November acquisitions have been posted:

New Arrivals: Romance Languages & Literatures

Please feel free to contact me if there are books, dvds, etc., that you would like the libraries to own.

[Featured title: Siete casas en Francia. Bernardo Atxaga ; traducción de Asun Garikano y Bernardo Atxaga.  Madrid : Alfaguara, c2009.]

Book covers

Once a week, I head upstairs to Monographic Aquisitions to review the books we've received on approval (automatically, based on a profile we've set up).  It's one of the rare occasions that I work directly with books (this is the paradox of librarianship), and I often get a kick out of the book covers.  This is this week's favorite.

This and other works by Genna available at UW Libraries. 

Foster Undergrads take 3rd Place at BYU Spanish Language Business Case Competition

A team of three Foster undergraduates placed third in the second annual Spanish Language Business Case Competition at Brigham Young University in Utah on November 13. 

Britten Ferguson, Alex Fitch and Taylor Sloane recommended strategies for Walmart’s international expansion.  The case, the presentation and the Q&A were all in Spanish, which is a second language for these students.

The students presented before panels of corporate and faculty judges in two preliminary rounds.  The top three teams, representing Indiana University, Utah State University and the UW, were selected to go to the final round. 

The students exhibited both their business knowledge and mastery of a second language. Alex Fitch, CISB President, said, “In using my Spanish language skills in this competition, I gained confidence in the prospect of doing business in Spanish in the future."

Thanks to Frances Maloy and Spanish instructor Leon Bensadon for helping with team selection.

Congratulations to the students for an impressive performance!

From Foster eNews.  Full story here.