Carteles

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Description & Rationale

The Florida International University Libraries seek to digitize twenty-nine issues of Carteles, an important Cuban magazine published 1919-1960. The digitized issues will be added to holdings already present in the Digital Library of the Caribbean’s Celebrating Cuba! Subsection. Celebrating Cuba! is a recent initiative (2016) established in partnership with the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí (BNCJM) and a group of US libraries (the dLOC Cuban Collaborative Steering Committee—I am a member). Given the extensive run of available issues of Carteles in US libraries, the BNCJM agreed with the Steering Committee that having US libraries contribute their unique Carteles issues to the dLOC collection will allow the BNCJM to focus on adding its unique materials not held in US or other libraries according to a WorldCat scan taken by the University of Florida Libraries. FIU’s holdings are located in the Special Collections Department. Fourteen issues for the year 1925 have already been added to dLOC holdings.

Reasons for consideration:

Carteles was published from September 1919 and in print until July 1960 by brothers Oscar and Conrado Massaguer. Carteles covered pre-revolution Cuban commerce, art, sports and social life. It is considered one of the most popular magazines in pre-Revolutionary Cuba. Beginning in 1924, Carteles became more active in Cuban politics with articles criticizing the government of Gerardo Machado. Carteles was a perfect example of the humor and graphic design that artists such as Horacio Rodríguez Suria and Andrés García Benítez, employed during this period as commentary on Cuban society and politics. Several prominent writers, such as Alejo Carpentier and Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring, also contributed to Carteles.

FIU’s Special Collections Department reports that researchers constantly request access to our issues of Carteles. This longstanding record of publication captures Cuban life. Creating a near complete run of all Carteles issues in one open-access digital platform will open up its use on a global scale.

Author(s):

Massaguer, Conrado; Massaguer, Oscar; Quiléz, Alfredo T.

Publisher(s):

Massaguer, Conrado; Massaguer, Oscar; Empresa Editora Carteles, .

Source Format:

Paper

Target Format:

Digital

Program:

LARRP

Resource Types:

Serials

Regions:

Latin America and Caribbean

Countries of Origin:

Cuba

Proposal Contributors:

Gayle Williams, Florida International University

Posted:

May 29, 2020 2:48pm

Updated:

Jun 11, 2020 3:16pm

Source Details

Major Languages:

Spanish

Holding Institutions:

Florida International University

OCLC:

6654509

Additional Identifiers:

GV1199 .C3

Physical Details:

Individual issues contain an average of forty-sixty pages.

Intellectual Property Considerations:

The Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí has granted copyright permission to the University of Florida regarding the digitization of Carteles. The Cuban Collective Steering Committee has agreed this permission extends to libraries participating in the project to digitize the magazine.

Activity

Status	Current	Description
Flagged	no	The proposal is flagged for further research.
Vetted	no	The proposal has been examined and vetted.
Ballotted	no	The proposal is currently on a committee ballot.
Approved	yes	The proposal has been selected for reformatting. Reformatting efforts are pending.
Reformatted	no	The proposal has been reformatted and access information is now posted.
Inactive / Declined	no	No longer under consideration for reformatting.