PRESERVATION AND DIGITIZATION OF LATIN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS IN THE UNITED STATES

摘要

The authors review the history and recent developments of Latin American preservation reformatting in the United States and discuss current projects underway to digitize select newspapers from Latin America. Preservation of Latin American newspapers on microfilm has taken place since the early part of the 20th century. Efforts by several educational institutions, the Library of Congress, and the Latin American Microform Project have preserved a large corpus of news resources material available for researchers in North America. More problematic is access to these resources by scholars in Latin America itself. Current digitization efforts in specific countries in Latin America have begun to make these valuable resources more accessible. However, there still exists a need for a broad-based, collaborative effort to digitize newspapers from across the region. The authors will discuss a multi-institution initiative to digitize a cross-section of Latin American newspapers and propose steps for collaboration with institutions in Latin America.