[Visited May'07] This site provides a look at Cuba from the inside. Lubow, a librarian at Los Angeles Valley Community College, created Cuban Internet Resources in 2004 for the National Network on Cuba, an umbrella group serving various organizations that vigorously advocate normalization of the relationship between the US and Cuba. The site, powered by the Scout Portal Toolkit, is an open source software product developed by the Internet Scout Project; it provides a comprehensive, annotated, searchable collection of Internet resources produced in Cuba. As of March 2007 the database had over 3,100 entries and was growing. Annotations are clear, concise, and keyword searchable. Each entry has subject headings based on either Library of Congress or National Library of Medicine classification.

Documentation indicates when the records were created and last modified, and when the Web links were last checked. When available, entries contain e-mail contact information for the party responsible for a site. Resources can be discovered through basic and advanced searching as well as browsing. Entries are organized into 25 major classifications, each with an indication of how many records are to be found within. Subjects range widely, with headings including "Arts and Culture," "Science and Technology," "Medicine," "Media," "Politics and Government," and "Travel and Tourism." Many recent additions are for Cuban blogs, providing access to personal insights about events and issues of the day. Cuban Internet Resources is the place to go for information on Cuba from the Cuban perspective. Plainly, most of the resources referenced are in Spanish, but many Web sites have English-language versions.

Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty/researchers. -- J. H. Pollitz, Oregon State University