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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Report on Caribbean digital libraries conference

UNESCO supports Caribbean digital libraries, a press release from UNESCO, July 12, 2007.  Excerpt:

A workshop on Caribbean Digital Libraries and Digital Repositories: Recent Initiatives and Future Development was held in Trinidad and Tobago [July 10-13, 2007].

The workshop was organized by the National Library and Information System of Trinidad and Tobago (NALIS), in collaboration with UNESCO....

Stakeholders examined areas of possible cooperation in developing digital collections, discussed the development of a Caribbean Digital Library Initiative (a cooperative formed through the award of a grant from the US Department of Education Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) in 2005), and deliberated on the Caribbean’s participation in the [OA] World Digital Library Project....

Initially the workshop was designed to accommodate forty participants. However, over three hundred applications were received....