The Digital Library of the Caribbean

FIU Technology Fee - Strengthening Caribbean Research through Technology

Brooke WooldridgeProject Coordinator Digital Library of the Caribbean brooke.wooldridge@fiu.edu; www.dloc.com

Fall 2011

dLOC Collaboration26 Partners – Caribbean, Europe and US

Access to Caribbean ResourcesOver 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 dLOCthat 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.

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The advanced search feature will allow you to restrict your search terms by categories such as title, author, subject keyword, country and more.

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If you are looking for items with discrete geographic locations, use the Map Search feature. You can also view the results in Map View.

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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: BibliothequeHaitienne 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 VigiaYear: 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 JournalsCaribbean Review of BooksCaribbean OrnithologyEme EmeKyk-Over-AlJamaica JournalMaComereSargasso

Government Gazettes100,000 pages19 titles

dLOC hosts many materials about the trade, manufacture, and Cuban sugarcultivation 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, FLFacilitator: 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 brooke.wooldridge@fiu.edu; www.dloc.com

Email DLOC@FIU.EDU from your FIU Email to receive a link to a 5 question quiz about the Digital Library of the Caribbean.