The Jewish Diaspora Collection (JDoC) is a collaborative and cooperative digital library designed to preserve and provide wide access to Jewish heritage materials from Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Modeled on the Digital Library of the Caribbean, JDoC provides a host site and portal for digitized versions…
The LACC reading room is open Mondays through Fridays, and our book pickup service is continuing through Summer A.
Image Gallery Nineteen-year-old Eusebio Guiteras left Matanzas, Cuba, in 1842 for a three-year tour visiting the US, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire, including Istanbul, the Egyptian pyramids, & Jerusalem. His travel journals are a unique source of observations and the connections that a young Cuban aristocrat…
UF Admissions recently created a virtual tour of the UF Libraries for potential students and anyone else who wants to see our spaces and the people who work there! Watch the embedded video above for more information.
On behalf of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Dr. Margarita Vargas-Betancourt joined the International Council on Archives (ICA) campaign #EmpoweringArchives.
The Haitian American Dream Timeline is now live! Created by Alexandra Cenatus, Ivanna Moreno, and Dr. Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, the Timeline examines the events and the forgotten stories of Haitian immigrants in the United States. In so doing, it explains the reasons behind the…
Come visit the beautiful Altar de Día de Muertos that Mexicans in Gainesville has created in LACC dedicated to all victims of COVID-19. Only UF affiliates can enter Smathers Library currently so bring your Gator 1 Card and face covering if you visit us. Mexicans in Gainesville wrote the…
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by learning more about Spanish-speaking countries with their different cultures, histories, politics and more. Visit our website for reading resources, with info to request pickup! Visit the Scalar site built by LACC student assistants Ana Mata Preciado and Lauren Justice: https://laccbookdisplays.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/hispanic-heritage-month-2020…
LACC Librarian Paul Losch wrote the new article “Latin American Records of Past Epidemics”: “As the world is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, public health statistics have been at the center of attention. Numbers offer one way for us to comprehend and respond to emerging threats. Not only current…
Dr. Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, Jessica L. English, Angelibel Soto, and Melissa Jerome co-wrote a chapter titled “Contesting Colonial Library Practices of Accessibility and Representation,” in Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation, edited by Mary Kandiuk. (Sacramento CA: Library Juice Press, 2020). This chapter discusses how Library and…
