The Production and Bibliographic Control of Latin American Preservation Microforms in the United States

Appendix E: Recent Latin Americanist Preservation Microfilming Projects Funded by Grants

(As Reported in College & Research Libraries News. 1985-1990)

Dec., 1987: $155,000 from Title II-C to the State University of New York at Buffalo to create 5,500 catalog records for materials in the "Latin American Documents" collection marketed by General Microfilm Corporation.

Oct., 1988: $64,000 from Title II-C to the University of New Mexico to microfilm "newspapers, monographs and political ephemera published in Oaxaca between the late eighteenth and the early twentieth centuries."

Sept., 1989: $64,042 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Hoover Institution to preserve 1,438 "books, periodicals, government papers, and pamphlets that document the career and political impact of Argentine leader Juan Peron."

Oct., 1989: RLG's "Great Collections Microfilming Project" reported to include 4,500 volumes from the University of Florida's "Caribbean Basin Collection."

Oct., 1989: $142,947 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas, to "preserve on microfilm several thousand valuable books and pamphlets on Mexican history that are on the verge of disintegration."

Oct., 1990: $487,717 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the University of Illinois to microfilm "4,500 deteriorating volumes in German, Brazilian, and Argentine literature."

Oct., 1990: $30,324 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Virgin Islands Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums to microfilm 205 land transaction, probate, and court record books from St. Croix, 1778-1958.

Tulane University, the University of North Carolina, and Duke University are all filming Latin Americanist materials in conjunction with a cooperative project organized by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries.

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