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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 27d

‼️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...

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Virtual Side Event Towards Mondiacult: Cultural Rights in the Digital Environment

Cultural Rights in the Digital Environment: A Conversation about Open Solutions to Connect with Heritage Side Event Towards Mondiacult 17 September 16:00-17:00 CEST Register Here ...

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · Aug 12

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...

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks for thinking of us! Please email us at [email protected] and we will be happy to help out.

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Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social · Jul 31

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.

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thanks for the shoutout! 🤗

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Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective @caribbeandsc.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Jul 23

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...

Gids slavernijverleden Curaçao / Slavery Heritage Guide Curaçao - LM Publishers

Voor veel toeristen die naar Curaçao op vakantie gaan is het slavernijverleden volkomen onbekend. Ook de lokale bevolking is zich hier niet altijd van bewust, ondanks het feit dat de Curaçaoënaars nog...

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Jul 15

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:

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Jul 9

🎉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

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Katie Coldiron @katielcoldiron.bsky.social · Jul 2

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!

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · Jun 30

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...

OER in Caribbean Studies: Stipend Recipients 2025 – Digital Library of the Caribbean

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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · Jun 28

#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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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Jun 24

We love to see it! 🌋

David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · Jun 24

Great to see the first outcomes of a digital archives project led by Martin Mahony @ueaenv.bsky.social, with #Montserrat National Trust, @mvoupdates.bsky.social @dlocaribbean.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Here is 'SeismiCity News', from 1997 to 1998 dloc.com/title-sets/A...

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Katie Coldiron @katielcoldiron.bsky.social · Jun 20

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 🇨🇼:

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · Jun 13

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.

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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Dr. Steph Chancy @chancyms.bsky.social · Jun 10

@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.

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Jun 6

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...

ACURIL 2025

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · Jun 3

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:/...

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · May 22

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...

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Dr. Steph Chancy @chancyms.bsky.social · May 19

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!

Call for applications to the Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025

The Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean launches the new call for the Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025.

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · May 16

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

Call for Papers – Seminar in Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies | University of Miami Libraries

The UM Libraries provide faculty, students, researchers, and staff with the highest quality access to collections and information resources in support of the University's mission to transform lives th...

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · May 15

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=...

dLOC Newsletter Submission Form (English)

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · May 7

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.

Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Apr 23

Job Alert! Fully-funded 3-year #PhD Studentship available looking at #music-making in the colonial #Caribbean. Come and join my team working on the musical legacies of the #BritishEmpire To apply see: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: PhD Studentship: Western Classical Music in Global History: Performance and Musical Trade in the Caribbean in the Long Nineteenth Century

We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD place, which will be supervised by Dr Joanne Cormac of the University of Nottingham's Music Department, for three years, starting on 1 October 2025,...

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