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This week the UF Libraries celebrate the first finding guide for an archival collection in both Spanish and English. The finding guide is: Guide to the Rafael Martínez Pupo Papers Relating to Comandos Mambises Guía de los Documentos de Rafael Martínez Pupo en relación a los Comandos Mambises The finding guide and collection were prepared by Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, the new Caribbean Basin Archivist in the UF Latin American Collection.Read More →

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Google recently released the Google Translator Toolkit. The Translator Toolkit allows users to easily upload text, has Google Translate’s existing functionality to automatically translate the text, and then adds “Translation Memories” which is a database of prior human translations. A translation memory (TM) is a database of human translations. As you translate new sentences, we automatically search all available translation memories for previous translations similar to your new sentence. If such sentences exist, we rank and then show them to you. Comparing your translation to previous human translations improves consistency and saves you time: you can reuse previous translations or adjust them to create new,Read More →