Join our colleagues from the Children's Literature Reading Group on November 5, from 5-6:30 p.m. for a Caribbean-themed Reading session featuring Nikkolas Smith and Olive Senior. In Person at University of Florida's Matherly Hall 117, or via Zoom ufl.zoom.us/meeting/regi.... (1/4)

Don't miss this event highlighting Caribbean Children's Stories on November 7, in person at the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, or via Zoom. Scan the QR Code for more information.

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...

‼️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...

Further to this @thetls.bsky.social essay about Una Marson's early work as a publisher, the full run of Marson's 1920s/1930s magazine, The Cosmopolitan, is now freely available on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (@dlocaribbean.bsky.social): www.dloc.com/AA00114844/0...

I am hugely excited to be teaming up once again with my longstanding partner in crime Dr M. Stephanie Chancy at @dlocaribbean.bsky.social, along with the wonderful folks at the Hastings Museum, the Eccles Institute, the Museo Enrico Caffi, George A Smathers Libraries and MUPANAH.

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!

Very excited to have received support from @dlocaribbean.bsky.social to build the teaching resource “Enslavement, Medicine, and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue: A History in the Press” dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/2025/news/oe...

#JobAlert: Five new opportunities have been brought to our attention. They consist of job positions and fellowships in various disciplines. Below you will find the appropriate links and applications.

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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 🇨🇼:

This piece emerges from my recent digitisation of the magazine (with funding from @uoe-llc.bsky.social ‬& with thanks to Melissa Jerome of the University of Florida). The full run (!!) will soon be freely available via the wonderful @dlocaribbean.bsky.social - I'll share the link here when it's up.

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

@dlocaribbean.bsky.social Scholarly Advisory Board member Mirerza González Vélez giving the Keynote Acuril 2025, about the work of our friends and colleagues at #CDSC.

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...

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...

Calling #Caribbean & #LatinAmerican organizations with bibliographic and documentary heritage. Submit your unique collection for Registration with UNESCO's Memory of the World Register - Latin American and Caribbean Region. See www.unesco.org/en/articles/... for information. Deadline August 15!

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=...

Please share this advert for a fully funded 3-year PhD student ship. It’s a fantastic opportunity to look at the performance and reception of Western Classical music in the Caribbean in the C19th.

An original copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence—lost for over 200 years—was discovered in Britain’s National Archives in 2010 by a grad student. Our #RecordOfTheDay is from the @layersoflondon.bsky.social #Humap Learn more www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #HaitanRevolution

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!

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...

Hi #CaribbeanStudies/#AtlanticStudies people, I wanted to bring this opportunity to your attention. @dlocaribbean.bsky.social is accepting proposals for Open Educational Resources. ‼️ CFP: #OER in #CaribbeanStudies 👉 Proposals due April 14, 2025 ℹ️ Info: tinyurl.com/OER-Caribbean

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.” 🇭🇹

The Honduran musician, one of the most recognized proponents of a Caribbean culture dating to the 17th century, died Monday in an airplane crash.

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...

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...

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...

‼️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...

We are delighted to announce that registration for the 10th SCS Postgraduate Conference is now open. This will be an online conference on 10th-11th April 2025. Please find the registration form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline for general registration is Monday 24th March 2025.

‼️DUE 3/14/25: Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute, Kimberly Green Latin American & Caribbean Center, and Libraries are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Díaz Ayala Library Travel Grants. More information can be found below: cri.fiu.edu/extracurricu...

‼️ DUE 3/10/25: The University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies is currently accepting applications for travel grants for scholars to come use Latin American & Caribbean resources at the UF George A. Smathers Libraries. More info can be found here: www.latam.ufl.edu/outreach/lib...

Special Issue: Journal of Haitian Studies - ‘Citizens of the World/Citoyens du monde/Sitwayen Mond Lan/Ciudadanos del Mundo’: Haitian Mobilities and Futurities across the Americas' www.haitianstudies.org/2025/02/jour... #Haiti @haitianstudies.bsky.social @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social