Laurie Taylor is the Senior Director for Library Technology & Digital Strategies. She provides leadership for technology and partnerships with the University of Florida Libraries across the university, regionally, nationally, and internationally. She works closely with colleagues to sustain collaborations for building collections, community, and capacity, including for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and LibraryPress@UF. Her work is geared towards enabling a culture of radical collaboration that values and supports diversity, equity, and inclusion. Thoughts my own.
We are pleased to announce that our newest dLOC partner collection from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is now accessible in dLOC. The Records of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA), 1939-1977 collection exhibits more than fifty files about the role of the JDC in assisting refugees from Nazi Europe to settle in the Dominican Republic and establish agricultural colonies, in particular the settlement at Sosua. The collection records in dLOC link back to the digital collection of the JDC Archives, where users can download pdfs of the documents.This collection is a valuable addition to dLOC that will continue to develop Caribbean research material particularly in the understudied areas.More about JDC Archives.
Partnership with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is also a new collaboration with the Jewish Diaspora Collection.
The JDC Archives is pleased to announce that as part of ongoing efforts to expand our digital reach through collaborative projects, we have shared the Records of theDominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA), 1939-1977 collection with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), a cooperative digital library for primary source records about the Caribbean and its neighboring territories.
The DORSA collection documents JDC’s establishment in 1938 of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association, an agricultural settlement for over 700 Austrian and German Jewish refugees in Sosúa in the north of the Dominican Republic. The collection records in dLOC link back to the JDC Archives database, where users can download pdfs of the documents.
dLOC provides users with electronic access to 2 million pages of content from forty partner institutions; it is administered by Florida International University in partnership with the University of the Virgin Islands and the University of Florida. The JDC-dLOC partnership is also a new collaboration with the Jewish Diaspora Collection, which preserves and provides access to Jewish heritage materials from Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
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