The Digital Reader

From the Miami Herald:

The three largest heritage libraries and the National Archives — keepers of much of Haiti’s complicated, heroic, rich story — were reportedly lost to the random nature of earthquakes.

Within days of the Jan. 12 disaster, a university staffer 750 miles away worked frantically to deliver better news: the buildings were shaken but still standing; their precious rare books, manuscripts, newspapers and brochures had been spared. And the people who spend day after day caring for the collections were all safe.

But Brooke Wooldridge also learned help was desperately needed to rescue and preserve the treasures that help chronicle Haiti’s history, clustered mostly in the four institutions in downtown Port-au-Prince.

So Wooldridge quickly assembled like-minded culturalists who were already a part of the Digital Library, an international coalition of research, governmental and educational institutions that provides access to Caribbean-related electronic materials.

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