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The Digital Library of the Caribbean
FIU Technology Fee - Strengthening Caribbean Research through Technology
Brooke WooldridgeProject Coordinator Digital Library of the Caribbean [email protected]; www.dloc.com
Fall 2011
dLOC Collaboration 26 Partners – Caribbean, Europe and US
Access to Caribbean Resources Over 3.3 million hits since 2006 Over 1.54 million pages of content
Digitization Training Program for Partners
Caribbean Studies and Educational Outreach
Monthly HitsMarch 2007 – March 2011
dLOC Oral Histories WorkshopACURIL 2011 Tampa, FL
dLOC Collaboration
dLOC Partners with Collections Online
Partner Training
Technical Infrastructure
Institutional Support
1. Assess faculty and student needs for Caribbean research - 26 faculty responded in the Spring 2011 - 50% teach Caribbean courses, 72% teach on Caribbean - 56% didn’t know about dLOC, 12% use it for teaching research
2. Collaborate with courses focusing on the Caribbean
3. Conduct outreach to student academic associations
4. Develop faculty/student training and online exhibits- GIS Day Map Exhibit, In-Class Presentations, Flora of the Caribbean (pending)
5. Work with faculty to develop educational materials using the content available in dLOC that will support general student/faculty research (8,000 pages of content to support FIU teaching and research) - Interest in more documents in Spanish, Linguistics, Disaster and recovery in Haiti, Biodiversity and ecology, Voodoo, Women and religions, Migrations and religions, West Indian Journal of Medicine
FIU Tech Fee ProjectTargeted Departments
African and African Diaspora Studies, Biology, Global and Sociocultural
Studies, History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Modern Languages and Politics and International Relations
The basic search allows you to access bibliographic citation information of the items in dLOC. Just enter the search term from any computer with Internet access.
Basic Search
The advanced search feature will allow you to restrict your search terms by categories such as title, author, subject keyword, country and more.
Advanced Search
If you are looking for items with discrete geographic locations, use the Map Search feature. You can also view the results in Map View.
Map Search
Expand or narrow the results by selecting the related search terms in the box to the left.
Options for faceted searching include: publisher, geographic area, subject keywords and more.
Faceted Searching
Registration is optional, but adds many features such as the ability to comment on items, create public and private bookshelves and save searches.
mydLOC Registered Users
Caribbean literature plays an important role in understanding the region. Current and historical items in dLOC serve a variety of research needs in the region. A literature sub-collection is in discussion with several users of the site.
Title: Ecrivains HaitiensAuthor: Dantes BellegardeYear: 1950Contributor: Bibliotheque Haitienne des Peres du Saint Esprit
Title: Kyk-Over-AlAuthor: British Guiana’s Writer’s AssnYear: online from 1948 - 1995Contributor: University of Florida
Title: La revista del VigíaAuthor: Ediciones Vigia Year: 1990Contributor: University of Florida
Literature
Many dLOC partners also contribute collections on the early history of slavery and emancipation. Items include books, manuscripts, maps, prints and much more.
Title: The Honorable Sam SharpeCollection: Jamaica UnshackledContributor: National Library of Jamaica
Title: Letterbook for the Simon Plantation, St. KittsCreator: Samuel CaryDate: 1772Contributor: University of Florida
History of Slavery
Caribbean plants vouchered and expertly identified by Dr. Scott Zona during his 25 years of botanical research in the Caribbean.
LaraceaeDominica, Freshwater Lake
Flora, Landscape and Architecture
Kenneth Treister, ArchitectCollection of 3,000 Photographs, Architectural Drawings, Project Files, Etc
Historical and Current Serial Publications
Title: Trinidad GuardianDate: 1917-1931 onlineContributor: University of Florida
Title: Haiti En MarcheDate: 1999-2001 onlineContributor: Publisher
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
Current Stats: 150 titles, approx. 325,000 pages 5,000 visits and 700,000 hits
Select Academic Journals
Caribbean Review of Books
Caribbean Ornithology
Eme Eme
Kyk-Over-Al
Jamaica Journal
MaComere
Sargasso
Government Gazettes
100,000 pages 19 titles
dLOC hosts many materials about the trade, manufacture, and Cuban sugar cultivation records from the 1850s until the Cuban sugar industry by the government of Fidel Castro. The collection provides descriptions of the social, political, and economic environment in which Cuban sugar was manufactured.
1917 Map of Cuba showing all working sugar estates. Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation
Cuban Sugar Collections
Title: Digital images of Alan Lomax photographsLocation: Lopinot, TrinidadContributor: Association of Cultural Equity
Alan Lomax Photographs and Recordings from the Caribbean are being added!
CARICOM is building a comprehensive collection of CARIFESTA materials.
Culture and Arts
Title: Haitian Voodoo Recordings – Ceremony bapteme tambour Location: HaitiContributor: University of Florida
13 Maya Deren Recordings
Law and Government Documents
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Encourage communication across institutions working to assist Haiti’s libraries.
Coordinate technical and in-kind assistance for Haiti’s libraries.
Raise money to support specific collection/archival recovery and preservation projects in Haiti
Elizabeth Chin, a Katherine Dunham specialist from Occidental College, and University of Florida students at PHPI Benefit
Sobe Export employees preparing the shipment for Haiti. August 2010
Preservation Training. June 2010
Protecting Haitian Patrimony
Joint FIU/UM Fundraiser Little Haiti Cultural CenterFebruary 2011
dLOC Educational Outreach
Teacher Training Miami, FL
Facilitator: Matthew J. Smith, Lecturer, UWI MonaSponsor: Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU
Caribbean Diversity and Technology Workshops
The Digital Library of the Caribbean
FIU Technology Fee - Strengthening Caribbean Research through Technology
Brooke WooldridgeProject Coordinator Digital Library of the Caribbean [email protected]; www.dloc.com
Email [email protected] from your FIU Email to receive a link to a 5 question quiz about the Digital Library of the Caribbean.
