Title VI: November 18, 2010 Notes

Title VI Librarians Meeting
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Latino Hispanic Room, San Francisco Public Library
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Meeting Notes

Report on President Tubman digitization project:
This project (i.e., the digitization of the President Tubman papers which had earlier been microfilmed) is now complete. The papers are available in an open access environment

A large part of the meeting was devoted to a discussion of an electronic platform that would house our digital projects; discussion items included brainstorming about the idea of an Open Africana Archive, and partnering with HathiTrust as a place for an electronic Africana library. 

Prioritizing project ideas – the following projects were identified as potential new projects:

Providing access to British Library newspapers onAfrica

Repository of African dissertations/African dissertation e-library

Preservation of West African photos/images

Creating a clearing house for finding aids for African archives on the internet

Digitization of notebooks of African leaders

Funding requests approved:

Supplemental funding for digitization project at the Fort Portal Archives (western Uganda)

Supplemental funding to pursue the digitization of the colonial district reports at the Arquivo Historico de Mocambique.