CARIBBEAN NEWSPAPER DIGITAL LIBRARY TICFIA Conference May 6, 2010 Brooke Wooldridge and Laurie Taylor

What can be found in dLOC Agriculture Maps Migration Music & Arts Medicine, Health Law Literature Teaching Guides Education Environment Economic Development Newspapers Oral Histories Politics, Government Race/Class/Gender Religion Slavery & Resistance

Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library Target foreign newspapers from partners and publishers to increase access to more complete collections.

CNDL - Content  Newspapers  Gazettes  Journals  Newsprint

Institutional Partners

Current Archiving  Bahamas Tribune, The Abaconian, Barbados Advocate, British Virgin Islands Beacon, Justice  Additional permissions granted from at least one paper in all but 11 countries  Data Acquisition: FTP, , Harvest, Data Drive Swaps and Digitization of Physical Materials

62 Titles from 31 Countries

Copyright Permissions Partner Training to seek permissions for non-exclusive distribution

Technology Deliverables  Continue to evolve digitization toolkit  New tools to facilitate newspaper digitization  Serials metadata  Content delivery options Publishers Partner Institutions (libraries, archives, non-profits)  Improved search accuracy (segmentation)

Digital Library System  Topical and partner collections  Supports multiple views for all items  Page images, zoomable images, thumbnails  Downloads  Flash SWF (items in motion)  Google Maps  Additional specialized views  Serials with hierarchy, thumbnails of all covers  Custom homepages, interfaces, wordmarks on items

myDLOC: for patrons & librarians  Bookshelves  My Library  Saved Searches  Self-submittal to load items online  Edit your items  Online metadata editing for all items by institution or collection

myDLOC  Newspapers  Journals  Newsprint

CARIBBEAN NEWSPAPER DIGITAL LIBRARY (CNDL) Brooke Wooldridge and Laurie Taylor