Digital Library Center
Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
P.O Box 117003
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
P: 352.273.2900
F: 352.846.3702
DLC@uflib.ufl.edu
The Florida Digital Newspaper Library
The Florida Digital Newspaper Library is a project funded in part by grants from Florida’s Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Grants Program, from the National Endowment for the Humanities' National Digital Newspaper Program, and from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. It is also funded by the University of Florida, with the assistance of digital library endowment from the Estate of the late Governor and Mrs. C. Farris Bryant, and by Florida Heritage Project funds from the University of North Florida and the University of South Florida. The Florida Digital Newspaper Library is indexed by the Florida Electronic Library.
Read more about the technologies and history of the Florida Digital Newspaper Library here. Contact the Florida Digital Newspaper Library here.
People Involved in the Florida Newspaper Project (Cataloging and Microfilming)
The University of Florida became a full CONSER member in 1977. In 1981, it was awarded a Title IIC grant to undertake a retrospective serials conversion project along with seven other academic research libraries in the Southeast. This work led to the development of the MARC holdings format. The University of Florida and the Florida Center for Library Automation were instrumental in the development of the MARC format for the NOTIS integrated system software.
Cataloging staff at the University of Florida have been notably active in national cooperative programs. Martha Hruska, Director for Technology Services at the University of Florida, has served as chair of the CONSER Policy Committee for two years, 1993 through 1994.
The University of Florida became an associate of the Name Authority Cooperative (NACO) program in 1987 after Cecilia Botero received formal training at the Library of Congress. The Serials Unit of the Cataloging Department currently does NACO work for all its serial titles and for Latin American and Florida headings that appear on any monograph.
Project cataloger Robert C. Dowd has been involved with the United States Newspaper Program since 1989. From March of that year through 1994 he worked with the New York State Newspaper Project. Almost as fond of dusty bound volumes of nineteenth-century papers as he is of preservation microfilm, Bob returned to his alma mater (BS 1981) with a zeal that enabled him to catalog the entire University of Florida's newspaper collection in less than two years.
Project archivist LaVerne Jenkins is the one who does all of the real work. Her time is spent at three different desks on three different workstations doing OCLC input, LUIS (opac) maintenance, and FoxPro development. LaVerne has worked on and off at Smathers Library since 1988, taking some time in the meanwhile to earn her bachelor's degree at Bethune-Cookman College in 1994.
