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This anniversary volume of the Association for the Teaching of Spanish in Higher Education in the United Kingdom is a compilation of contributions made by members and delegates at the 2019 ELEUK annual conference held at the University of Edinburgh. Throughout the book, authors share their teaching, assessment, and research practice in the area of Spanish Language Teaching (SLT). From strategies to enhance student engagement and foster student agency to reflections on language teaching practice from diverse angles, these nine short papers contribute to current debates around foreign language pedagogy, with a focus on teaching Spanish in the higher education context. [For the two out of nine papers in this volume written in English, see ED606533 and ED606534.]

Through the following text we intend to provide some practical advice to carry out the complex task of moving a library. These recommendations arise from the experiences lived towards the end of 2018, during the transfer, due to building remodeling, of the 25,000 documents that make up the bibliographic collection of the library of the FASTA University (Fraternity of St. Thomas Aquinas groups) of Mar del Plata. Our intention is to share with the library community all the data collected, materials used, images recorded and forms designed throughout the whole process of the move, so that they may be useful at the time of starting a similar task. The move was divided into four stages, where all the actions that integrate them have had the fundamental purpose of preserving the collection and promptly resuming the usual services. These stages are: 1) the planning and calculation of the materials; 2) cleaning of the books and shelves; 3) the packing of documents, furniture and equipment; 4) relocation of the collections. In addition, we have included a section on the occupational health and safety of all the personnel involved in and responsible for the various tasks involved in the move. The recommendations and precautions that were taken into account when handling the tools and the bibliographic collections are developed throughout all the stages of the move. Finally, we share the graphic images and digital publications that we used to disseminate and inform the entire educational community about the important changes in the services during the move, through the different channels of the library and the institution.

The purpose of this book is to stimulate ideas leading to a sharing of approaches, strategies, and methodologies applicable to the education of Puerto Ricans. Following introductory material, 18 papers are presented, the first 10 of which are in Spanish. Titles and authors are: (1) "El maestro que Puerto Rico necesita," Leonides Santos Vargas; (2) "La profesionalizacion de la ensenanza universitaria," Leonides Santos Vargas; (3) "Estilos de aprendizaje," Ramon Claudio Tirado; (4) "El insumo de la evaluacion en programas de educacion en servicio," Jose Ruiz Vega; (5) "La consultoria mediacional: tecnica moderna de orientacion para implementar un programa de Mainstreaming," Juan M. Morales Vega; (6) "Transculturacion e interferencia linguistica en el Puerto Rico contemporaneo: cuestiones de metodo," Humberto Lopez Morales; (7) "Ensenanza de la lengua materna," Carmen Turull; (8) "La ensenanza de los procesos de la ciencia en la escuela elemental," Eduardo Morales Garcia; (9) "Que significa volver a lo basico en la ensenanza de las matematicas," Nilda Garcia Santiago; (10) "Resolucion de problemas," Nilda Garcia Santiago; (11) "Intellectualism in Pedagogical Schools," B. Othanel Smith; (12) "Three Theories of Learning and Their Implications for Teachers," Aura I. Ramirez; (13) "Linguistics and the Teaching of the Spanish Language in Puerto Rico," Sonia I. Davila; (14) "Teaching ESL from the Right Hemisphere of the Brain," Carmen Judith Nine Curt; (15) "Learning a Second Language," Shirley A. Torres; (16) "The Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development and Transfer of Comprehension Reading Skills in Bilingual Education," Sonia I. Davila; (17) "Hispanic-Anglo Conflicts in Non-Verbal Communication," Carmen Judith Nine Curt; and (18) "Plan for the Implementation of a Multicultural Education Component with an Inter-Disciplinary Approach at the College of Education of the University of Puerto Rico," Isidra Albino Serrano. (KH)