Celebrating Cuba! Collaborative Digital Collections of Cuban Patrimony

Celebrating Cuba!

Celebrating Cuba! Collaborative Collections of Cuban Patrimony seeks to advance and centralize current digital surrogates of Cuban historical and cultural material with the ultimate goal of providing global access to Cuba’s patrimony.

Celebrating Cuba! currently contains more than one million pages organized in ten different collections: Cuban Newspapers and Periodicals, Archives and Manuscripts of and about Cuba, Cuban Monographs, Cuban Ephemera, Cuban Law, Cuban Thinkers and Intellectual Leaders, Maps of Cuba, Theses and Dissertations about Cuba, U.S. Government Publications about Cuba, and Cuban Judaica. This is the result of more than three years of collaborative work between the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (https://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/) and Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí (BNJM, http://www.bnjm.cu/) as well as other partner universities and contributors in the United States such as Cornell University, Duke University, Florida International University, Harvard University, HistoryMiami, Kent State University, Library of Congress (US), LLMC-Digital, New York Public Library, University of California Los Angeles, University of Kentucky, University of Miami, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Yale University.

Materials are available at BNJM and through Celebrating Cuba! (https://ufdc.ufl.edu/collections/cuba) which is part of the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC, www.dLOC.com). Digital files are also available to partner institutions who wish to locally host materials. Specific current priority projects and links to digital collections for each one are below. If you are interested in learning more about specific initiatives or wish to participate in one or more of the projects, please contact CubaSteering@uflib.ufl.edu.