EnglishEspañolEnglish By: Bryan Ramos Romero 📣 Exciting news! Dr. Ricia Chansky has been named a 2023 Assembling Voices Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Research and Empirics (INCITE) at Columbia University. This award is made to individuals with compelling ideas for public initiatives that bring people together to promote engagement around pressing social justice…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish By: Vashti N. Tacoronte Cruz In a groundbreaking achievement, Marci Denesiuk, an esteemed adjunct professor in the English Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, has been awarded a significant grant from the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon). DEFCon is a national consortium renowned for fostering and promoting digital ethnic studies. As…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish By: Vashti N. Tacoronte Cruz Time for celebration! The team at the Oral History Lab (OHL) at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez has achieved another commendable feat. This time, their proposal has been accepted for a virtual presentation at the prestigious 2023 Annual Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish By: Bryan Ramos Romero 🎉🎥📚 It’s Official! The Oral History Lab (OHL) at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus has opened its doors to the university community and collaborators. The February 16 inauguration of the space, located on the first floor of the General Library, demonstrated the work that faculty and students have…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish May 22, 2023 – This presentation addresses some important considerations to take into account when describing audiovisual resources and demonstrates how to easily start cataloging with PBCore. The speaker Valeria Dávila is a specialist in the preservation of audiovisual materials. She has a degree in Cinematography from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish Join us for the grand opening of the new Oral History Lab on February 16, 2023! There will be various opportunities to learn about the OHL, its archives, and current projects being undertaken. If you’re attending in person or joining us online, please register here prior to the event. …
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EnglishEspañolEnglish On Friday, December 9th, 2022, the Oral History Lab had the pleasure of welcoming artist, activist-scholar, archivist, and historian, Cynthia Tobar, who discussed the community-based approaches in co-creating oral history collections. During her workshop, Tobar discussed how academic institutions can support local communities by providing access to needed resources and implementing post-custodial archival models.…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish The Oral History Lab is pleased to announce that the RUM library has installed a bilingual children’s book exhibition. This will be available at the main entrance of the UPRM library and will be available from Monday, September 5th, 2022, until Monday, October 31st, 2022. The exhibition has been under work since 2019, but…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish On August 26th, 2022, the Oral History Lab had the pleasure of welcoming Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez from Pratt Institute to talk about the field of archival and its theoretical frameworks. In her workshop, she covered the theories and basic concepts related to archival and its practical applications in the acquisition and development of collections,…
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EnglishEspañolEnglish On June 30th, 2022, the Oral History Lab welcomed Rosadel Santos Flores to give a workshop on Omeka, an open access platform that can be used to create and disseminate collections of digital objects. Rosadel Santos Flores discussed how different aspects of Omeka’s functionality can be used for Digital Humanities projects, including how to…
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