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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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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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Diario de Pernambuco

Microfilm holdings of Diario de Pernambuco (Brazil) for years 1825-1923 digitized.

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Oct 2, 2018 3:02pm

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Fantoches (Caracas, Venezuela)

Reformatting of the Venezuelan journal Fantoches (May 6, 1924 - April 20, 1927).

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Sep 11, 2019 2:20pm

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Global Press Archive Charter Collection 3 - Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers

CRL–Global Press Archive Charter Alliance : Open Access Collection 3: Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers

This collection is approved by the GPA Advisory Committee for Open Access under the CRL/East View GPA Charter Alliance, funded and supported by CRL members and participating non-member institutions.

The size of the collection is suggested to encompass over 1,000 over 1,000 short-run from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929). Page count is estimated between 300-450,000 pages.

Content is available at: https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/irmn.

CRL's Charter Alliance offer is available via eDesiderata at:...

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Nov 23, 2020 2:56pm

Guantanamo Naval Base Newspaper Digitization

Since 2006, The Guantanamo Bay Gazette, the weekly newspaper at the Guantanamo Naval Base (GTMO), Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been available as an open access resource via the Digital Library of the Caribbean. Prior to 2006, the base newspaper existed under successive titles only in paper format with the only nearly-complete run held at a small community library located on the Naval Base. The history and chronology of the newspapers was not compiled or explored until 2012 when the Duke Libraries’ Librarian for Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies...

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Oct 2, 2018 2:52pm

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Illuminating the Lloyd Best Archive in Trinidad and Tobago

The Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago is partnering with Trinity College in Hartford to digitize the Lloyd Best Archive, preserve it according to OAIS standards, and make it accessible. The collection consists of newspapers, research papers, correspondence (personal and professional), hand-written notes in copybooks, speeches, flyers, pamphlets, consultancy reports.

Lloyd Best was a Caribbean man and an economist by training. Best spent his life trying to understand, develop, and integrate the Caribbean. His thinking, writing, teaching, publishing, organising, and political activity were all devoted to these ends. This project seeks to make his work available to a wider audience while preserving his rich contributions to Caribbean history, thought...

Source Format: 
Paper
Audio
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Sep 11, 2019 3:42pm

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Memory and Cultural Identities: The Newspapers and Historical Documents of Southern Patagonia, Part II

In Southern Patagonia local media, especially newspapers, played a fundamental role in the formation of regional identity. In the early twentieth century the growth of cattle ranching in the south of the country fostered the conditions needed for the growth of an extensive publishing industry particularly in newspapers and periodicals. Local elites founded numerous newspaper outlets whose primary purpose was to defend local interests but also with the intent to define regional identity. Many publications were devoted to the struggle between liberal and conservative ideologies, but ultimately the success of these enterprises depended on how well they were able to represent the interests and needs of the local elite. Local newspapers became a central mechanism in the region for imposing...

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jun 4, 2021 11:06am

Mercurio (Santiago, Chile)

The proposed project aims to fill in the missing microfilm holdings of Mercurio at CRL.

The project would microfilm newspaper holdings from the University of California, Berkeley:

Nov. 1 - Dec. 15, 1991 Nov. 1 - Dec. 31, 1997
Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
Sep 11, 2019 2:21pm

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Official gazettes from Guatemala

Foreign official gazettes published in Guatemala 1871 - 1972. Includes the title El Guatemalteco. Diario oficial de la Republica de Guatemala. CRL holdings include: 

Microfilm: Mar. 4, 1841-June 25, 1871 Print: Vol. 80-81 no. 100 May 4-Dec. 23, 1914; Vol. 83-88 May 21, 1915-Sept 6, 1917; Vol. 90-128 Mar. 9, 1918-1930 Microfilm: June 8, 1950-Apr. 4, 1957 Microfilm 1957-1970 Microfilm: 1971-Aug., 1972

Continued by Diario de Centro America. Imprint: Guatemala (pub. Aug., 1972-) CRL holdings include:

Microfilm:  Aug., 1972-1984 Microfilm: 1971-1976 Microfilm;: 1985-Oct. 29, 1993 (lack 1990: Apr. 12-15, July 14-15, Sept. 1-2; 1992:...
Source Format: 
Paper
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jan 14, 2019 2:57pm

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Reeling in the French Antilles: digitizing newspapers from Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1852 to 1929

The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF) requests [see Cost Summary] to support reel preparation activities and vended digitization costs related to digitizing 31,200 pages of UF microfilm holdings of French-language newspapers published in Martinique and Guadeloupe between 1852 and 1929. Titles selected for digitization include Le Propagateur (Saint Pierre, Martinique) and Journal officiel de la Guadeloupe (Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe). Duplicates of archival master microfilm from UF will be used to complete the digitization. Additionally, these duplicates will be added to the UF Latin American & Caribbean Collection Reading Room as access/use copies as an additional access point. The digitized content will be freely available to the public through the...

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Feb 27, 2023 12:50pm

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South Pacific Mail

Title:    The South Pacific mail. Publication:    Valparaíso [Chile : s.n.] Place:    Chile; Santiago.; Chile; Valparaíso. Year:    1909-1965? Description:    Began Nov. 6, 1909.; v. : ill. ; 31-45 cm. Language:    English Standard No:    National Library: 1054570-0; 01586300X; LCCN: sn 89-33273 Preceding Title:    Chilean times Accession No:    OCLC: 2267930

Source Format: 
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Jun 22, 2018 3:18pm

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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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