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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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8 Mārs = Thamāniyat Mārs

Preservation on microfilm of existing issues of short lived monthly Moroccan women periodical published in Casablanca 1983-1986.

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Nov 14, 2019 10:18am

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Bob Jones Indochina Collection of rare newspapers and serials

Funds are requested to digitize a number of rare serial titles from the Bob Jones Indochina Collection.  These materials, collected by Jones while stationed in Saigon during the War, are mostly brittle or in poor condition.  Two of the titles are already held by Cornell, and we intend to amalgamate our holdings, digitizing the better volumes from both collections.

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May 18, 2020 10:53am

Bob Jones Indochina Serials 2022

The project continues the work of my previous proposals 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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Mar 28, 2023 9:45am

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Carteles

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...

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Jun 11, 2020 3:16pm

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Delʹfis: nezavisimyĭ rerikhovskiĭ zhurnal / Del'fis: Kul’turno Prosvetitel’nyi Zhurnal

This project would microfilm UC Berkeley Library’s holdings for 2015-2019 issues of Delʹfis : nezavisimyĭ rerikhovskiĭ zhurnal. Del’fis is a Russian language quarterly that is held by UC Berkeley Library (https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/17oqkkj/alma991038405579706532).

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May 8, 2023 4:21pm

Design magazine

This proposal is for the microfilming of the earliest 12 issues of Design, published in India from 1957-1967. CRL has holdings beginning with volume 13 (1969). Also for microfilming of volume 15, number 2 and volume 21, number 10 to fill gaps in CRL’s collection.

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Apr 13, 2020 12:55pm

Digital Preservation of Nepalī Traimāsika and Pūrva Ṭāimsa: Two important sources for scholars of XX-century Nepal

The project aims to digitize the Nepali-language periodicals titled “Nepalī Traimāsika” (Trimonthly) and “Pūrva Ṭāimsa” (Weekly). A list of volumes and issues along with brief descriptions of the proposed titles are appended. The digital copy will be prepared from the original periodicals. Digital copies of each will be sent to SAMP and kept at Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP). (This is a continuation of a project to digitize Nepali newspapers and periodicals collected and filmed by the MPP under the supervision of LC consultants.)

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Oct 31, 2022 11:21am

Digitizing Peru's Print Revolution

This project proposes the digitization of an initial corpus of rare nineteenth-century Peruvian serials, ephemeral circulars, and popular song and verse imprints held in the José E. Durand Peruvian History Collection at the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries. These unique materials support new scholarship on diverse political and cultural topics in Peruvian history. They also offer new insights on the worldwide nineteenth-century revolution in print culture, providing fodder for comparative work by scholars across disciplines. The materials included in this first corpus date to the first half of the nineteenth century. They will be digitized and enhanced with OCR. They will then be slated for incorporation into the Libraries’ repository that allows users to...

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Jul 10, 2019 3:03pm

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Garima and Racana

The project aims to digitize specific runs of two Nepali literary magazines "Garima" and "Racana".  A list of volumes and issues along with a brief description of the proposed title is appended. 

The digital copy will be prepared from the original periodicals.  A set of the digital copy will be sent to SAMP and another set kept at Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP).

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May 17, 2021 3:16pm

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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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Jun 8, 2021 10:59am

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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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Mar 1, 2019 2:34pm

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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Mar 13, 2024 10:44am

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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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Mar 5, 2021 11:39am

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Palaistinē, a Greek PLO Serial

The PLO worked with its international offices to print serials abroad. This periodical is a monthly run printed in Athens, mainly in Greek, from 1984 to 1986.

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Nov 3, 2021 2:33pm

Preserving Early Tamil Serials

This project aims to digitize three early Tamil serials namely, Kumari malar, Makaḷir cintaṉai and Pēcum paṭam. These serials focused on subjects such as literature, feminism and early Tamil movies respectively. Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) has almost full run of these serials which are important source material for researchers.

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Mar 13, 2024 10:41am

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Rare Odia Serials at the Utkal Sahitya Samaj

This is a proposal to digitize six regional Odia language serials from the early twentieth century, held by the Utkal Sahitya Samaj (USS) in Cuttack: Baikuntha Bhikari, Puribasi, The Ratnakar, Utkal Barta, The Swadesha Lakshmi, and The Light. These titles are not present in Worldcat, and we know of no other holdings. We have received written permission from the USS to digitize their entire archive, and have chosen these rare serial holdings as a pilot project.

The work will be conducted by staff from the Center for Translation and Digital Humanities at Ravenshaw University, under the direction of Urmishree Bedamatta. To support capacity building, and with an eye towards future collaborations in Odisha, we are requesting funds to purchase mobile...

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May 17, 2021 3:17pm

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Digital Preservation of Satya Samācāra Sāptāhika

The project aims to digitize the Nepali-language periodical titled "Satya Samācāra Sāptāhika" (Weekly). A list of volumes and issues along with brief descriptions of the proposed title is appended. The digital copy will be prepared from the original periodicals. Each digital copy will be sent to SAMP and kept at Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP). (This is a continuation of a project to digitize Nepali newspapers and periodicals collected and filmed by the MPP under the supervision of LC consultants.)

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Aug 11, 2023 5:35pm

South Slavic Publications

Periodicals published in Bosnia and Hercegovina in the 25 years during and following hostilities in the countries once comprising Yugoslavia (1991-2016). Formats vary in size, frequency, place of publication and language and script of text. Included are approximately 55 titles, for the most part in Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian. It includes 5,340 issues, and an estimated total of 253,670 pages (126,835 exposures). The subject of this collection is politics, economics, social issues and culture of the affected population in regions of former Yugoslavia. Coverage is primarily about and/or published in BiH. The languages are SCB and English.

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Mar 10, 2023 3:02pm

Suluh, Suara GAPENSI, Gelora 45

Serial publications from 1960’s, Indonesia & Netherlands.

Suluh was produced by Indonesian students in the Netherlands. Suara GAPENSI (“Madjalah  Bulanen Gabungan Pemborong Nasional Seluruh Indonesia”)  periodical.  Powerful organization/association of contractors, this their trade magazine.  Gelora 45   began 1964, ceased in 1965.  Advisor/founder Amir Hamzah Sihombing died 1966.  “Spirit of 45”  The generation dedicated to Indonesian independence, making Indonesia a unified nation.
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May 18, 2020 10:54am


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