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Participating librarians and scholars provide information here about collections, archives and data sets of interest to area and international studies (AIS) research, propose preservation of those collections and the creation of new digital resources from data sets, and vote on the merits of those proposals. Community input provided here informs and guides the building of new AIS resources.

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Tamil Women’s Journals

Two Tamil Women's journals: Matar Manorancani (1899-1917); Pen Kalvi (1911-1918).

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jun 19, 2018 4:09pm

A Tarde (Salvador, Brazil)

The primary newspaper in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The central library of Bahia has digital access to the archive from the paper’s beginning in 1912 through the early 2000’s.

Source Format: 
From Digital
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jun 25, 2019 12:43pm

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Ujedinjeno srpstvo = United Serbians

This project would digitize CRL’s holdings for Ujedinjeno srpstvo = United Serbians for the years 1917 – 1922 and make them openly accessible on CRL's platform. It was a Serbian language periodical that was published in Chicago, Illinois from 1906-1948, but only the holdings from 1917-1922 are available at this time for digitization.

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jun 18, 2021 10:30am

Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Phase 2 - Ukrainian Local and Independent Newspapers

GPA CRL Alliance Phase 2 Collection: Ukrainian Local and Independent Newspapers 

This collection is endorsed by the GPA CRL Alliance Advisory Committee for Phase 2. It is funded and supported by CRL and member institutions. The size of the collection is roughly 800,000 to 1,100,000 pages published between (1989-2002).

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Oct 27, 2022 10:31am

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Venezuela and The Turbulent 1960s - Presidential Archive of Raúl Leoni

The Presidential Archive of Raúl Leoni is a collection of personal papers and official documents that is in urgent need of digitization in order to make them more easily accessible to scholars and the community. To this end, the Fundación Red Historia Digital Venezolana (or Venezuela History Network) and the Fundación Raúl y Menca Leoni have been working together on the development of a digital repository for these documents in order to preserve this invaluable cache of cultural heritage. We propose to digitize the entire archive, generate the corresponding metadata for each document at the item level, and promote the archive’s content online through the creation of an open-access repository hosted by the Venezuela History Network website. All members of the team proposed in this...

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Aug 1, 2023 4:06pm

Las Voces de las Abuelas

“The voices of the grandmothers” is a project that aims to (1) restore, (2) create metadata, (3) preserve and (4) open the access to a collection of audio interviews made to mothers of disappeared, at the same time grandmothers of appropriated children during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. The content of this collection is 144 interviews made between 1998 and 2006 to 126 mothers/grandmothers that live in different parts of the country. They were taken by the oral history archive of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, the Family Biographical Archive, in order to deliver them to their grandchildren once they were found and restored. In their interviews, each one of these women reconstruct the life story of their disappeared children, the story of their family -before and...

Source Format: 
Audio
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Nov 30, 2020 9:36am

Vokrug Svieta digital archive (1861-2021)

Vokrug svi︠e︡ta /Vokrug Sveta is a Russian geography journal that began publishing in 1861. It is one of the longest-running Russian journals that was published initially from December of 1861 through 1917. It was not published from 1869-1884, 1918-1926, and during the years of WWII. This proposal envisions digitization of a complete run of the journal, as confirmed by Mike Peters of East View.

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
May 19, 2021 12:54pm

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West India Committee Archives

ICS Reference    M915 Date    circa 1769-1924 Creator    West India Committee

Scope and Content Includes minutes of meetings of the West India Committee and sub-committees, 1769-1924; minutes of the British and Colonial Anti-Bounty Association, 1887-1890; note books and letter books of Edwin Fitzpatrick, John F. Alleyne, Robert Reece, Thomas D. Hills, William D. Bruce.

Extent    16 reels of microfilm Catalogued to item level.  A pdf version is available via record description at: http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/Details/archive/110044876

 

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jan 14, 2019 2:30pm

West India Committee Circular

Official organ of the West India Committee. Published in London fortnightly. Deals with West Indian affairs generally (economic conditions, travel and description), but especially the interests of the West India Committee (sugar trade, shipping, trade statistics, etc.).

Published   v. 1-74; 1886?-1958

(continued by Chronicle of the West Indies Committee)

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jan 14, 2019 5:13pm

Wichai Sothna Cremation Volume

Digitization of single title.

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
Aug 17, 2021 2:00pm

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Yeni yaşam / Özgürlükçü demokrasi / Özgür gündem

Three daily related newspapers from Turkey. Özgür gündem started in 1992 and ceased in 2016, then Özgürlükçü demokrasi started in 2016 and ceased in 2018, then lately, the new continuation Yeni yaşam, started from 2018 forward.

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
Nov 14, 2019 10:19am

Yindunixiya shang bao = Indonesia shang bao

The Library of Congress no longer acquires Southeast Asia Chinese newspapers. This would ensure a Chinese language paper from Indonesia is preserved. Important documentation for Chinese influence and population in Indonesia. Wikipedia: Indonesia Shang Bao (Chinese: 印度尼西亞 商报), is a Mandarin-language newspaper published in Indonesia.

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
Jan 24, 2020 10:39am

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É-LÈ SONGÔ

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
Oct 28, 2022 2:07pm

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Ազդակ.; Azdak

This proposal is for microfilming of Azdak from 1 January 2018 through 31st December 2019 (a total of approximate 626 issues). Not issued on Sundays.

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
May 8, 2023 4:22pm

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