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Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117007
Gainesville, FL32611-7007 USA

P: 352.273.2900
F: 352.846.3702
DLC@uflib.ufl.edu

Digital Library Center Projects: CARIBBEAN NEWSPAPER IMAGING PROJECT

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LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTION :: CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

The University of Florida Libraries began collecting Latin American research resources in the late 1920s. Following World War II, Rockefeller Foundation funded the Farmington Plan, multi-year projects to acquire foreign resources for use in the United States. Dedicated University of Florida faculty and library staff set out to systematically collect a vast collection of Caribbean and Latin American monograph, journal, and newspaper archives. Microfilm was used to capture and preserve many of these rare, often unique materials.

The Latin American Collection, established in 1967, focuses on enriching these resources. The Collection, including holdings in the Department of Special Collections, holds more than 450,000 volumes of printed materials; a growing number of electronic resources; nearly 50,000 microfilm positive reels and more than 8,500 microfilm negative reels, containing nearly 5 million exposures. The fact that 7,000 reels of the Collections' microfilm negatives are newspaper holdings indicates the collection development and preservation effort emphasis. Indeed, the Latin American Collection's archive of master microfilm negatives has become the archive-of-record as source originals were lost to fire, hurricane, war, and climate.

The Caribbean Newspaper Imaging Project was established, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Florida Libraries, to provide access to these collections on-line.

With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation