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dLOC in Library Instruction
Collaboration Between Faculty and Librarians
Margarita Vargas-BetancourtUniversity of Florida
July 2013
Scope and Mission of the George A. Smathers Libraries’ Latin American Collection
1930s President John J. Tigert creates the Institute for Inter-American Affairs at the University of Florida (UF).
1948 Farmington Plan 1951 The Farmington Plan assigned UF as the
repository for Caribbean material. 2007 Mission of the George A. Smathers
Libraries: to support the needs of faculty, students, and the rest of the University of Florida community.
Archival CycleHunter, Gregory S. Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives. New York, London: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2004.
Three Examples of Collaboration Between Faculty and Librarians
Cuban collections at the University of Florida.
Development of the course “Panama Silver, Asian Gold: Migration, Money, and the Making of Modern Caribbean Literature.”
Libguides.
Cuban Collections What has been collected and is now at dLOC?
Rare books Maps Records related to slavery and military affairs Manuscript collections that cover the years since the
Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898)a. Material on the Spanish American War b. Braga Brothers Collection
Result:One of the strongest collections on Cuban
material.
What Is New in the Cuban Collections?
Material on the Cuban Revolutiono A result of:
• Donation of the Neill Macaulay Collection.• Collaboration with Prof. Lillian Guerra.
Exampleso An online collection: Cuban Revolutionary Posterso A digitized collection: Rafael Martinez Pupo
Papers Relating to Comandos Mambises Significance
o Supported archival cycle.o Sets a model on how to deal with sensitive material.
“Panama Silver, Asian Gold: Migration, Money, and the Making of Modern Caribbean Literature.”
Object of study:o Immigration of indentured workers from India and China to
the West Indies.o Emigration of West Indian laborers to the Panama Canal.
Team:o Rhonda Cobham-Sander (Amherst College), Leah Rosenberg
(University of Florida), Donette Francis (University of Miami).o Librarians.
What is librarians’ job?o To identify archival material and upload it.o Examples:
• Selected Views on Indentured Labor in the Caribbean, 1804-1956
• Topical Collection at dLOC: Panama and the Canal
Libguides These are guides that contain listings of
recommended resources for finding information, such as databases, journals, books, web pages, etc.
Professors request librarians to make libguides for their courses:o Early Caribbean Historyo Modern Caribbeano Tourism & the Caribbean
