ABOUT
As the Instructional Design and Education Librarian, I lead the Queens College Library in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of our library instruction program. Additionally, as the subject librarian for education, I support students and faculty in the Queens College School of Education through collection development, research support, and external partnerships designed to advance scholarship for the public good.
My current research explores open access publishing in educational research and library services for teacher training programs in Mexico and the United States. Committed to promoting equitable access to information, I also serve on the LACLI executive team. My previous academic work at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla focused on regional music and the educational profiles of US-born young people in Puebla, Mexico. I started my career as a Special Education teacher in Brooklyn, NY.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
Book Chapters
PROJECTS
Nchetjá kuènté chjasin Jnantáyo: El barro del pueblo de Metzontla
Part of a grant-funded language revitalization program in Los Reyes Metzontla, Puebla, Mexico, "The Clay of the Village of Metzontla" captures the community's ancestral pottery practices as a means to pass the Ngiva language to children. Presented in Ngiva, Spanish, and English and accompanied by photos of the pottery process, the text is an accessible resource for teaching basic Ngiva at the elementary level. Read coverage of the project from the Center for Latin American Studies at OSU.
Evaluating AI in Teacher Performance Reviews
A tutorial for teachers to explore the potential use of AI in teacher performance reviews. Also for those looking to get acquainted with the Gemini API and sentiment analysis.
LACLI
An international collaboration to create a repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies. It is an essential tool to find websites that provide access to a great variety of resources such as audiovisual materials, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives and more.
TopoRadio
Born out of a collaboration with the Radio Preservation Task Force, this interactive map showcases books, articles, and archives about Spanish-langauge radio in the United States.
Simposio de la Economía Cultural
A two-day conference I organized at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla that explored the influence of Norteño music on the identity and economy of the Tehuacán region of Puebla, Mexico.
Cantares Tehuacán
Created for 4TV Puebla, these shorts profile musicians from Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on their art and livelihood.
Adelphi Brothers
Longtime family recording project.
La Ciudad de las Granadas
Recording project with Luis Ramon Castañeda of his compositions about Tehuacán, Mexico.
CONTACT
eric.silberberg@qc.cuny.edu