Preservation and Access of Unique Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies Collections

FAIN: ZPA-283915-22

University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (San Juan, PR 00925-2512)
Mirerza González-Vélez (Project Director: May 2021 to May 2024)

The retention of key humanities and archive staff, along with the purchase of equipment and software, to support a cross-institutional digital preservation and access project for Puerto Rican and Caribbean collections at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Campus (UPR).  

The University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus (UPR) requests funding to support a one-year project for digital preservation and access of selected items in unique collections related to Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies held by the Jose Lazaro Main Library and the College of Humanities seminar centers. Given the historical value and needs for preservation these items, they have a limited circulation. The COVID-19 pandemic has limited even more their physical access. Funding will support the revitalization and dissemination of these items as digital objects to make them available for college students, professors, researchers, and scholars at large during and after the pandemic. It will also allow for comprehensive staff training in the planning and deployment of sustainable, long term measures in managing and dissemination of digital collections in a future reopened environment.