My name is Daisy Domínguez and I’m the Information Literacy Librarian at The City College of New York (CCNY) Libraries and Adjunct Professor in the History Department of CCNY. My subject areas are History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese Literature. E-mail: ddominguez@ccny.cuny.edu  | Curriculum vitae.

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The background image is a close-up of a drawing by the 16th-17th century Andean historian Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. In this image, a khipukamayuq, or khipu specialist, holds a khipu (quipu), a record-keeping and communication device made of knotted cotton or camelid fiber cords. Khipus were used by the Pre-Columbian Andean civilizations for architectural, astronomical, and census-keeping purposes.