Margarita Vargas-Betancourt A Collaborative US-Mexican Partnership to Digitize Endangered Mexican Jewish Periodicals  Margarita Vargas-Betancourt Latin American and Caribbean Collection  Rebecca J. W. Jefferson Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica

Content: US-Mexican Partnership Significance of the Project The Newspaper Project Challenges and Lessons Learned

US-Mexican Partnership: Latin-American and Caribbean materials at UF Collecting Latin American and Caribbean Judaica A brief history of the Centro Centro de Documentación e Investigación Judío de México (CDIJUM) Natural Disasters and the Importance of International Partnerships

Significance of the Project: Brief history of the Jewish community of Mexico Jewish newspapers: history and significance Mexican Jewish newspapers as historical sources and as agents of community cohesion and acculturation with wider Mexican society and other Latin American groups

The Newspaper Project: Kesher newspaper at UF and CDIJUM The Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Jewish Disapora Collection Grants from the Latin American Research Resources Project (LARRP) Mexican vendor DocSolutions Current state of the Project

Challenges and Lessons Learned: Difficulties working with international partners: different expectations and standards; clear communication Going forward: communicating standards, establishing expectations, establishing roles

Any questions? Margarita Vargas-Betancourt E-mail address: mvargasb@ufl.edu Rebecca J. W. Jefferson E-mail address: rjefferson@uflib.ufl.edu