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Proposals A-Z

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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Indochine hebdomadaire illustre & Thiên-dạo chơn-truyền

The project continues the work of my proposal from last year to digitize important materials from the Bob Jones collection on Indochina.  These materials include some of the larger runs of serials as well as a selection of short runs of Saigon newspapers from the 1960s.

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Paper
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Digital
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Jun 8, 2021 10:59am

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Journal Officiel Du Cambodge I

This project would microfilm print copies from January 1962 - December 1963 of Journal Officiel Du Cambodge from the collection of the University of Hawaii - Manoa.

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
Mar 6, 2023 2:56pm

Journal Officiel du Cambodge II

Filming of issues missing from Cornell’s microfilm reels for years 1958-1961. We have issues from these 4 years that we discovered were not on the microfilm.

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Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
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May 10, 2023 10:49am

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Kannada Publications in the National Bibliography of Indian Literature

This project will continue work begun more than thirty years ago to create preservation copies of all publications included in the National Bibliography of Indian Literature (NBIL). To date, 1,288 of the publications in the Kannada section of the NBIL have been preserved (or partially preserved in the case of multi-volume works) under the Microfilming of Indian Publications Project.

Three hundred and twenty Kannada publications in the NBIL are proposed for digitization this year. This is approximately one quarter of the...

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Paper
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Digital
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Aug 11, 2023 5:34pm

Kutiyaracu

Ingesting at CRL of digitized images of the Tamil periodical Kutiyaracu and cataloging the digital resource.  The digital images are being provided by the University of Chicago Library.

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Paper
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Digital
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Dec 18, 2020 10:53am

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Late Ottoman and Early Republican Diplomatic Treatises and State Publications

NYU has a collection of 31 diplomatic treatises, commission reports and state publications involving the Ottoman and early Republican Turkish states from 1870 to 1924. The project will digitize the treatises and reports and make the available as an OA collection.

The treatises shed light on the diplomatic relations of the Ottoman and the early Republican Turkish states with Iran and several European and Latin American states.

The treatises have been inventories but not cataloged yet.

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Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
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Jun 4, 2021 11:05am

Latin American Census Publications

International Population Census Publications for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1990-2005. Printed volumes of Latin American tabular data, held by the U.S. Census Bureau International Library (subset of larger, comprehensive collection held by the Census Bureau), per Lara Cleveland at IPUMS.

The Census Bureau participates in an international publication exchange with counterpart national statistical agencies, a program that has contributed many publications within the Bureau's International Collection. The Bureau's International Collection began growing substantially with the Census Bureau’s increased international analytical and technical assistance activities in the post-World War II years. The entire collection was cataloged at the turn of the...

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Paper
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Digital
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Jun 28, 2018 4:19pm

Latin American Pamphlets from Senate House Library

The Senate House Library of the University of London holds 680 pamphlets that "are under an exclusive licence to an online publisher until 2022" but an additional 3,000 or so covering the whole continent, mainly from the 1970s but extending from the 60s to the early 80s, all political/radical or relating to protest movements. 

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Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Sep 24, 2018 11:40am

Latin American and Latina/o Radio Broadcasts at the Benson Latin American Collection

The result will dramatically increase access to perhaps the most well-known Latina/o and Latin American current affairs and culture program in the United States (Latino USA) and a lesser-known but important series dedicated specifically to Latin American events and culture (Latin American Press Review/Latin American Review). Created by UT Austin’s Institute of Latin American Studies, the Latin American Review radio program was broadcast as part of the Longhorn Radio Network. Covering all of Latin America and the Caribbean, the program aired from 1973 to 1984 (this proposal covers all episodes through the end of 1980). The program was primarily divided into two segments: a news 2 segment, dealing with reports from different parts of Latin America, and an interview segment, in...

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Audio
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Aug 1, 2023 4:07pm

Latin American serials held by Linda Hall Library and CRL

First announced in 2016, the CRL/LHL Global Resources Partnership in Science, Technology and Engineering targets historical, pre-1950s serial titles identified as being of high value for historical research. The project combines partial runs of titles held by the two organizations, prioritized by subject (as informed by strengths declared in the partnership Collection Management Policies), and clustered around specific themes or subjects.

In the coming year, the list of titles for potential inclusion include serials published in Latin America about a variety of scientific...

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Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Mar 1, 2019 2:34pm

Le Citoyen

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

Leftist Serials in Tamil: Markcist Mata Italkalai and Cemmalar

Building on increased interest in the “global left” and deepening the growing corpus of leftist material made available in digital format through SAMP & SAOA (for example, Nalupu, Amukh, Kranti, Viplav, Viplavi Tract, Bagi, the Sajjad Zaheer Archive), we propose to digitize and make openly available two communist journals in Tamil: 

Markcist Mata Italkalai (1991-2020) (not in OCLC) Cemmalar (1970-2021) (OCLC: 5119595) 7 print holdings (CRL, Cornell, NYPL, Wisconsin, California [2—one UCU, one NLRF], and Texas)--presumably all LCCAP supplied The latest holdings in US libraries end in 1996 1973-1996 are available in Hathi but those issues are not open access, many of the scans are blurry, have lost...
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Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Mar 13, 2024 10:44am

Lesotho Newspapers, primarily from Yale and Northwestern

In this project, Yale University Library and Northwestern University Library propose to arrange for the microfilming through CAMP of an estimated 13,838 pages of Lesotho newspaper titles from 1990 to 2018.  The titles include The African, Family Mirror, Her Heroes 'n Heroines, Informative, Lesotho Monitor, Maddhouse Weekly, Mohlanka, Moitseki, Moqolotsi, Motjoli's Review, Nonyana, Sechaba, Shoeshoe, Spectator, Sunday Express, Varsity Breeze, Voice of Free Democrats, Watchdog, and Weekly Mail.

Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
Dec 3, 2018 12:25pm

Liberty - supplemental proposal

Liberty was a national English-language daily (except Sunday) published in Bangkok in September 1945 by Manit Vasuvat who was Chair of the Sri Krung Publishing Company. It was a well-written, conservative paper designed for international readers. The paper reflected the perspectives of British-educated Thais in both domestic and foreign news. It ceased in 1956.

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Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
May 17, 2021 3:18pm

Liberty

Liberty was a national English-language daily (except Sunday) published in Bangkok in September 1945 by Manit Vasuvat who was Chair of the Sri Krung Publishing Company. It was a well-written, conservative paper designed for international readers. The paper reflected the perspectives of British-educated Thais in both domestic and foreign news. It ceased in 1956.

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Paper
Target Format: 
Microfilm
Updated: 
Apr 18, 2019 3:02pm

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Madhuparka

The project aims to digitize the literary magazine Madhuparka.  A list of volumes and issues along with a brief description of the proposed title is appended.

The digital copy would be prepared from the original periodicals.  Each digital copy would be sent to SAMP and kept at Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP).

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Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Mar 5, 2021 11:39am

Madras Legislative Assembly Debates

The project aims to digitize debates of Madras Legislative assembly from pre-independent era (from 1933) to post-independent period (up to 1969).

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Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Mar 9, 2023 4:56pm

Madras Legislative Council Proceedings and Debates

The project aims to digitize Proceedings of the Madras Legislative Council from pre-independent era (1921-1937) and Madras Legislative Council Debates from pre-independent era (from 1938) to post-independent period (up to 1956). Volumes of Madras Legislative Assembly Debates from post-independent period (From 1960 -1966) are also planned to be digitized in the project as a continuation to the earlier project.

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Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Mar 9, 2023 4:57pm

Madras Presidency - Official Publications

The project aims to digitize official publications of Madras Presidency during the pre-Independent era, (1867-1937).

Source Format: 
Paper
Microfilm
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
May 17, 2021 3:17pm

Makerere University Newspaper collection digitization

The project aims at conserving, preserving and providing electronic access to Makerere University Library’s newspaper collection, which includes approximately 104 titles and 2600 volumes of bound newspapers.

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Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Updated: 
Nov 1, 2019 12:55pm

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