Por la libertad de expresión y la preservación de nuestra cultura latina.
For Freedom of Expression and the preservation of our Latin culture.
Scope of the project:
The Hispanic independent press of Florida encompasses more than fifty titles that have been in print, and others still are printing, in dozens of cities in the State of Florida since the 1950s. These publications represent the Hispanic community of Florida in all its diversity over time.
An important step to assure the preservation of the newspapers or serial publications and accompanying materials such as photographs or oral histories is digitization. This proposal calls for a partnership with the University of Florida Digital Collections to embark in a project for digitization to grant free online access to all historic and ongoing newspapers issues of the Hispanic independent press.
Another collection in UFDC, the Expatriate Digital Periodical Collection, is an ongoing project to house, organize, and preserve contemporary and historic material pertaining to expatriates li ving in Florida.
UFDC provides the ideal online platform for the Hispanic newspapers to be preserved and their digital forms archived in perpetuity.
The time frame of this project is all newspapers published in the second half of the twentieth century up to the present day available for scanning and online access.
Current newspapers with digital copies are encouraged to become part of the collection first, assuring that UFDC will continue to harvest and archive their holdings in the future.
