Digital Preservation of the 1961 Cuban National Literacy Campaign
The Cuban Literacy Campaign was remarkably successful. In 1961 Over 100,000 young students, over half of the them young women, volunteered to become Conrado Benitez Brigadistas, leaving home and traveling to the countryside to participate in the Literacy Campaign. In one year these young students taught over 700,000 Cubans to read and write. Through a graduate-level independent study project, I created a digital repository for the campaign by digitizing the museum's holdings and recording oral history interviews with former brigadista teachers.
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Memory Makes Us Who We Are
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The Oral History Project is a group project for LIS501 Information Organization and Access. We imagined that we received a grant for the Digital Public Library of America to develop a collaborative, digital oral history collection representing life in 20th and 21st Century America. We created a web-based collection report that outlines the collection, its organization and access, and its preservation.
Latin American & Latino Studies LibGuide
The Latin American Studies LibGuide was created for the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Louisville during my practicum in the Information Literacy Program at UofL's Ekstrom Library. There are a variety of research resources available through the library and on the open Web.
Deconstructing the Ref Desk
http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/reference/
Deconstructing the Ref Desk is a bibliographic discussion of the viability of the physical reference desk as a primary service point in academic libraries. This was my Reference and Information Services final project.