Garden Party du 14 Juillet (Bastille Day)

At the Alliance Française de Seattle 

 

Thursday, July 11 - 6:30pm 

$5 for members /$7 for nonmembers  

Incl 1 drink & buffet + concert de la chorale.  

RSVP by July 4 to events@afseattle.org

The letters of Italo Calvino

May 13, 2013

The New Yorker
 

A series of excerpts from “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985” translated by Martin McLaughlin. What follows is an introduction by Michael Wood, and the first installment of letters from Calvino to his friend Eugenio Scalfari, written when Calvino was a young man at university and in the Army. Scalfari was his closest friend at school; he went on to edit the weekly magazine L’Espresso and found the daily newspaper La Repubblica... (more).

This title forthcoming at UW Libraries.  But check out  Calvino's letters in Italian.

Traces: Catalan language and literature database

Traces is bibliographical database on Catalan language and literature. The TRACES project was created in 1987 by the Grup d'Estudis de Literatura Catalana Contemporània (GELCC) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Open access.

El Cervantes dibujará en Harvard un mapa del español en EE UU

Jesús Ruiz Mantilla Madrid 16 ABR 2013 - 13:34 CET

Estudiar español es fácil, accesible, posible, deseable en cualquier esquina del mundo. Cada vez más. Pero analizar la enorme diversidad de las metas que alcanza esa abrupta realidad de quienes lo hablan resulta cada vez más complejo. Por eso es crucial buscar alianzas. Al máximo nivel. El Instituto Cervantes ha ido a estrechar la mano de uno de los centros de saber más prestigiosos del mundo, la Universidad de Harvard. Su director, Víctor García de la Concha, firmará el viernes un acuerdo en su sede de Boston —pese al luto que vive la ciudad tras el atentado sufrido el lunes al término de su célebre maratón— para abrir un observatorio del idioma en ese lugar...(more)...

Criminally Underappreciated

By Matthew McAlister
Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics 

Georges Simenon, author of over four hundred novels and inventor of probably the second-most-famous detective in literature, Jules Maigret, is now, despite the fame of his creation, largely and unjustly forgotten. You might find a couple of dusty reprints in a big-box bookstore with a beefy mystery section, but only if you’re really looking. He was widely read in his lifetime, though he was, and still is, recognized more for his persona (the obsessions, lies, and hatefully competitive disposition) than for his prose...(more).

Read Georges Simenon at UW Libraries:  In English.  In French.

Help us with the UW Libraries website!

We are cur­rently work­ing on our infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture for our web­site. Our web­site has A LOT of infor­ma­tion, and we want to make sure our users under­stand where to go for cer­tain infor­ma­tion. We can’t have every­thing listed on one page…so we’ll have to struc­ture every­thing and make things easy for every­one to find!

How do we fig­ure out what makes sense to peo­ple? Card sort!

A card sort is a quick and easy way to find out how peo­ple think your con­tent should be organ­ised. It’s a use­ful approach for design­ing infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture, work­flows, menu struc­ture or web­site nav­i­ga­tion paths. (OptimalSort)

We ask patrons to puts the cur­rent links and labels we have on our UW Libraries site into log­i­cal group­ings, and finds a cat­e­gory name for each grouping.We’ve done some in-person card sort­ing with our patrons:

You can do this online with us now! And we need your input! Please help us to bet­ter define our infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture and make the UW Libraries web­site more user-friendly for you!

Start your card sort here:
http://bit.ly/1011sR1

Bouquiniste

French book sale: 
March 26 - 29, 2013

Alliance Française de Seattle
Good Shepherd Center, Suite 205
4649 Sunnyside Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98103
Telephone • 206.632.5433


Stop by the Alliance Française de Seattle from 9am to 5pm and load up your bookshelves with French books. Open until 7pm on March 28! Prices start as low as 50 cents!