Digital Library of the Caribbean
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The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) was established by a committee of librarians, scholars, and archivists at a meeting held in San Juan, Puerto Rico on July 17, 2004. The goal of dLOC is to build a cooperative digital library among partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean, thus providing scholars, students, and citizens around the world with open on-line access to Caribbean cultural, historical and scientific materials, while also ensuring long term preservation of these materials.
Collections include newspapers, photographs, archives of Caribbean leaders and governments, legal documents, official historical documents, literature (novels, poetry, journals, and more), art, audio-visual materials, and historic and contemporary maps. The Digital Library of the Caribbean provides open access to all materials, and all materials are full text searchable with JPG2000 images that load quickly but can be zoomed for detail, and the multiple formats support the digital preservation of materials in the Digital Library of the Caribbean. As of March 2008, the Digital Library of the Caribbean held 8708 titles comprising 345,248 pages built from the regular loading of new materials from partner institutions.
The Digital Library of the Caribbean is administered by Florida International University in partnership with the University of the Virgin Islands and the University of Florida. dLOC's technical infrastructure is provided by the University of Florida in association with the Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA). Current partners include the Archives Nationales d'Haïti (National Archives of Haiti), Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, The College of The Bahamas, the Fundación Global Desarollo y Democracia (FUNGLODE), the National Library of Jamaica, the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, Florida International University, the University of the Virgin Islands, the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida, and the University of Florida.
The Digital Library of the Caribbean can be accessed online at http://www.dloc.com.
[edit] External Links
- Digital Library of the Caribbean
- Caribbean Newspaper Imaging Project, subcollection of newspapers within the Digital Library of the Caribbean
Contributing partners to dLOC:
- Archives nationales d'Haïti (ANH)
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
- The College of The Bahamas
- Fundación Global Desarollo y Democracia (FUNGLODE)
- National Library of Jamaica (NLJ)
- Universidad de Oriente (UDO) in Venezuela
- Florida International University (FIU)
- University of the Virgin Islands (UVI)
- University of Central Florida (UCF)
- University of Florida (UF)
- University of South Florida (USF)
