The Latin America Data Base (LADB)is the longest running, premier, exclusively on-line, English language news service about Latin America. LADB produces three weekly electronic publications (Sourcemex, NotiCen and NotiSur) and maintains an on-line searchable data base of over 24,000 articles as well as Latin American journals. Publications are available by subscription. Established at UNM as a unit of the Latin American and Iberian Institute in 1986 and on the Web since 1996. LADB’s highly experienced professional journalists, collect source material from LatinAmerica in Spanish, and write weekly bulletins in English, placing events in context and highlighting key developments. As a public service, LADB also offers high school teachers 66 free lesson plans on Latin America on its Resources for Teaching About the Americas web site, which are used by teachers around New Mexico and the U.S. LADB is an invaluable source of current information on Latin America tapped by tens of thousands of users every month on the web, and via academic, commercial, and non-profit libraries throughout the world. Users include major research universities, small colleges, multilateral institutions, private corporations, and non-profit organizations worldwide.