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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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Burmese newspaper collection Post Feb 2021

I am requesting the digitization of a collection of miscellaneous newspapers that a former graduate student living in Yangon was able to collect for the University of Washington, before he was obliged to leave several months after the February 2021 military coup.

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Paper
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Digital
Microfilm
Updated: 
Mar 6, 2023 3:15pm

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CLASCO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences) Open Access Book Project

LARRP endorsed the CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences) Open Access Book Project in 2015. The goal of the pilot project was to identify a quality-controlled collection of open access books in order to explore services for libraries in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination and digital preservation. 

In year one a collaborative investment made by seven research libraries made it possible to process the 2018 and 2019 CLACSO OA Books for full discovery via Books@JSTOR. In year two a collaborative investment by 10 research libraries made it possible to process the 2020 and selected 2021 CLACSO OA Books. JSTOR provides metadata and full text for these titles to ProQuest Summon; Ex Libris Primo and Alma; EBSCO Discovery Service; and OCLC...

Source Format: 
From Digital
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Dec 15, 2021 3:29pm

Critica (Buenos Aires, Argentina : 1913)

Title:    Critica (Buenos Aires, Argentina : 1913). Publication:    Buenos Aires [Argentina] : [s.n.] Place:    Argentina; Buenos Aires. Year:    1913-? Description:    Began with Sept. 15, 1913 issue; ceased with Oct. 20, 1963 issue.; volumes : illustrations ; 46-59 cm Language:    Spanish Note(s):    Reproduction: Microfilm./ Oct. 14,/ 1941-1949:[Gaps]/ Berkeley :/ University of California, Library Photographic Service./ microfilm reels ; 35 mm. OCLC: 213809750

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jan 14, 2019 3:12pm

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Le Citoyen

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
Oct 28, 2022 2:01pm

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Memorial / Мемориал

CRL/SEEMP has approved a charitable contribution (as defined by article 582 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation) for the maintenance of Regional Civic Institute Research and Information Center Memorial.

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Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Nov 29, 2022 1:47pm

Mexican and Argentine presidential messages, 1821-1993

Proposal to convert and upgrade the digital collection of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches from the 19th century orginially scanned by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP).

In 2000, LARRP converted over 75,000 frames of microfilmed Spanish-language government documents to digital format. The material was originally microfilmed by the Library of Congress (Argentina) and LAMP (Mexico) on LARRP's behalf. The converted materials were hosted by LANIC at the University of Texas at Austin as GIF files, with larger TIFF files available for downloading.

We propose to harvest the TIFF images from LANIC/Texas (with permission) and to re-process the files to capture full text  (OCR) and related metadata.

Source Format: 
From Digital
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jan 14, 2019 3:17pm

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Naw Bahar

I am suggesting to digitize the Iranian newspaper “Naw Bahar,” a title held across different institutions and in different formats.  

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Oct 14, 2020 3:30pm

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Preserving Online South Asian Governmental Publications

Building upon the research conducted by 25 participants in the 2022 South Asian Cooperative Collection Development Workshop (SACOOP), this pilot seeks $15,000 to support data collection and preparation in service of the following goals:

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Source Format: 
From Digital
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Aug 11, 2023 5:31pm

Publicaciones Políticas y Culturales Argentinas c. 1900-1950

Publicaciones Políticas y Culturales Argentinas (C. 1900-1950). Microfilmed by LAMP in cooperation with Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas en la Argentina (CeDInCI), the collection comprises printed materials issued by the political left and anarchist movements in Argentina from the early to mid-twentieth century, including periodicals, books, pamphlets, flyers, and other publications of communist, socialist, anti-fascist, and other leftist groups.

Materials on the microfilm set (also called Serie 2) are organized into six thematic units: 

Publicaciones del Bureau Sudamericano de la Internacional Comunista (1926-1935) Revistas Político-Culturales orgánicas del Partido Comunista (1933-1938) ...
Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jan 14, 2019 3:19pm

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Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of Mexico, 1910-29

Digitization of the Index and the Economic Matters portion of the NARA microfilm publication "Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of Mexico, 1910-29"

This proposal addresses the digitization of the Index (reels 1-9) and the list of documents contained in the remaining Economic Matters portion (reels 161-204) and the documents included in Decimal File Number 812.50 - 812.5611.

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Feb 15, 2019 9:51am

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State of Baja California Human Rights Commission Archives Case Digitization Project Phase 1B

After a successful pilot during the summer of 2017, the University of San Diego (USD) - Copley Library will digitize the case backlog on the Fall 2020/Spring 2021 destruction schedule. Cases go as far back as the 1990s before there was a Comisión Estatal de los Derechos Humanos de Baja California (CEDH). These cases hold information on the types of abuses that were filed during that time along the Baja California/California border. The data in these cases, many of which were terminated, closed or dismissed before full investigations were completed, will provide a snapshot of the region for border scholars and historians alike. The goal of this project is to eventually make all of these older cases available for research and data mining online via DigitaIUSD, USD’s Institutional...

Source Format: 
Paper
Other Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Dec 14, 2021 2:53pm

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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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É-LÈ SONGÔ

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


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