Wishing all of you a joyful holiday season and a happy new year filled with successes and continued collaborations and discoveries in the field of Caribbean cultural heritage.

Happy Thanksgiving from dLOC! 🦃🍽️! Enjoy this issue of the St. Barth Weekly from November 24, 2005, contributed to dLOC by the University of Florida. Link to item: dloc.com/UF00095773/0...

Be sure to check out this interview with the artist, contributed by FIU’s Kimberly Green Latin American & Caribbean Center: www.dloc.com/AA00115600/0...

@dlocaribbean.bsky.social impact: After an introduction to the work of the artist Mireille Delice via Scholarly Advisory Board member Pierre Minn, we had this beautiful exhibit and event today at FIU Libraries. 🇭🇹

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

I had a great time interviewing Susan M. Rigdon, political scientist and longtime steward of the Oscar and Ruth Lewis papers at the University of Illinois, about her book “Oscar Lewis in Cuba: La Partida Final.” Check it out here: newbooksnetwork.com/oscar-lewis-...

‼️The latest dLOC newsletter is out! Check it out in English, French, and Spanish! English: www.canva.com/design/DAGqq... Français: www.canva.com/design/DAGyZ... Español: www.canva.com/design/DAGyP...

We are proud to endorse this virtual event on cultural rights in the digital environment, featuring dLOC Executive Board member Peter Scholing: www.ifla.org/events/virtu...

Very sorry to learn that University of South Florida librarian Andrew Huse passed away. He was the author, with colleagues, of The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers. Here is a remembrance from Miami Herald food editor Carlos Frías carlosfrias.com/blog/f/cuban...

Digital archivist accessories, courtesy of FIU Libraries

The new Web Archiving Handbook from the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) breaks down Web Archiving—tools, ethics, real-world examples, and more. 🌍✨ 🔗 Read the handbook at dloc.com/AA00105780/0... 📖 More dLOC features coming soon—see them all in our bio! #CDSC

Check out this new book on enslavement in Curaçao by Lianne Leonora, Director of dLOC partner Mongui Maduro Museum & Library, and Annemarie de Wildt! 🇨🇼 lmpublishers.nl/en/product/g...

In April, our Director of Operations @chancyms.bsky.social participated in the Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Workshop held by @unesco.org in St. Vincent 🇻🇨. Here’s her take on disaster preparedness and what it means for Caribbean cultural heritage:

🎉Meet Cohort 3 of our OER in Caribbean Studies program! We’re excited to support these educators as they create open, accessible, & impactful resources that deepen engagement with dLOC collections. 📚 Learn more: tinyurl.com/dLOCOERCohort3 ✨ Final projects coming in 2026! #OpenEd #CaribbeanStudies

Thrilled to be selected for the Silas Palmer Fellowship from the @hooverinstitution.bsky.social library & archives to support my research there. Look out, Palo Alto!

We love to see it! 🌋

Any time I go somewhere new (one of the perks of working for @dlocaribbean.bsky.social), I buy something new to hang in my office. Here’s the latest addition from Curaçao 🇨🇼:

We had a great time at this year’s ACURIL conference in sunny Curaçao! 🇨🇼 ¡Nos vemos en 2026 en Puerto Rico! @chancyms.bsky.social @katiehotsteel.bsky.social @minnesotanance.bsky.social

UPDATE: The dLOC-sponsored workshop at ACURIL will now be hosted on Monday, June 9th at 4:15 PM in Queens Ballroom B. Please see the official schedule for more information: acurilconference.com/index.php/ma...

Happy to announce my feature article on the current Cuban crisis is now no longer paywalled! Please feel free to read & share

Catch us next week at this year’s ACURIL conference in Curaçao 🇨🇼! We will be offering a beginner-level workshop on digital humanities on Monday, June 9th at 3:30 PM in the Royal Ballroom. More info on this year’s conference available here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

dLOC will be at the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials conference next week in NYC! 🗽 More info here: salalm.org/salalm70prov...

The University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection is inviting proposals for participation in the next iteration of the Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies. Deadline is July 1st. More info available at the link 🇨🇺: bit.ly/CHCSeminarCFP

Have news you'd like to share with a large community of scholars, cultural heritage practitioners, and general enthusiasts for all things Caribbean? Fill out this link for the possibility of having it featured in the next installment of the dLOC newsletter! webforms.fiu.edu/view.php?id=...

In a packed room and on the front row for a cool panel at #SECOLAS2025 @andrespertierra.bsky.social @renatakeller.bsky.social

Do you teach courses in Caribbean studies? Contribute your teaching materials to dLOC's collection of open educational resources and receive a stipend of $2,000 or $5,000. We are accepting proposals until Monday, April 14!

Orlando with my 🐞 @rojasrjuand.bsky.social

Applications are open for the 28th annual LACC Haitian Summer Institute at FIU! Deadline to apply is May 1st. More info available at lacc.fiu.edu/academics/ha... 🇭🇹

CFP: The International Journal of Documentary Heritage is accepting abstracts and paper proposals. The main theme of 2025 is “10 Years of UNESCO MoW Recommendation 2015.” Abstracts are due on April 30th and final paper submissions June 30th. More info on the journal available here: www.ijodh.org

‼️ The deadline for our final call for OER in Caribbean Studies stipends is approaching (April 14th)! Find more information at the following link: dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/2024/news/ca...

Today in authoritarianism:

Nuestros amigos del GLAM-DCM-PR van a tener su próximo taller el 11 de abril desde las 10:00 hasta las 12:00 (hora de Puerto Rico), sobre la planificación y evaluación de proyectos. @caribbeandsc.bsky.social. Regístrese aquí: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Cohort 2 of our Open Educational Resources in Caribbean Studies program is busy preparing new teaching materials. Visit tinyurl.com/OERCohort2 for descriptions and stay tuned for their completed projects later this year!‼️The deadline to apply to cohort 3 is April 14. ℹ️Info: tinyurl.com/OER-Caribbean

We are delighted to share that friend of dLOC Oneka LaBennett’s book, “Global Guyana” (2024, @nyupress.bsky.social), has been shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature! 🇬🇾 More info here: www.bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/

🚨Deadline extended to April 12th!🚨

disafimihisthttporypodcast.podbean.com/e/exploring-... #cuba #migration

🧵 A doubleheader of great events at the University of Miami Libraries today: first up, Marlene Daut, author of “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.” 🇭🇹

www.millionpodcasts.com/history-podc...

Call for papers: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference   The University of Miami, Coral Gables Department of English & Creative Writing and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies   October 8-11, 2025 More information available in the link: www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...

Yesterday presenting at the FIU #DOHGSA conference was so great. Coming to a conference near you soon 📚:

Ending the 2025 #DOHGSA conference at FIU with a great keynote by Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson.

Come visit me at UF & get some $$ to do it! Special Area Collections Travel Grant applications open until April 14. If our amazing special collections aren't enough of a draw, look at the space where you'd be working. Information available at this link: sasc.uflib.ufl.edu/research-tea...

I describe my current research as half historian, half librarian, and full on nerd:

We are currently hiring for a new position, Associate Dean of Learning and Research, at FIU Libraries. More info is available at careers.fiu.edu, Job Opening ID 534523. A great opportunity to work in an R1 library in Miami! ☀️

Este viernes, 14 de marzo, nuestras colegas Tania y Melissa van a facilitar el taller “Introducción a la Gestión de Colecciones Digitales” con la Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras. Vea el enlace para más información: blogsbuprrp.org/2025/03/05/p...

Favorite type of email 🤓:

‼️DUE 3/21/25: Call for applications: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Summer Research Internship Program. More info below 🇩🇴: www.cognitoforms.com/CUNYDominica...

Thank you so much to Vanderbilt U. CLACX and the Libraries for this beautiful set of writings by Afro Colombian intellectual Juan Zapata Olivella. Fun fact: Mr. Zapata Olivella’s brother, anthropologist Manuel, was here at FIU in 1987 for the famous Negritude conference organized by Carlos Moore. 🇨🇴

‼️Proposals due 3/31: The 2025 Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium (LACDH) will take place at the University of Puerto Rico from 11/5/25–11/7/25, followed by an online component on the 13th and 14th. More info available here: guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo...