The document discusses the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), including its mission, partners, governance structure, member benefits, and possibilities for partnership. dLOC aims to preserve and provide access to Caribbean cultural and research materials through collaboration with partner institutions. The document outlines how libraries can become dLOC members and contribute digitized content to its centralized repository.

1. - Introduction to the Digital Library of the Caribbean - Possibilities for partnership in the Dutch Caribbean Presenters: Brooke Wooldridge, dLOC Coordinator Laurie Taylor, Digital Projects Librarian Seminar for Libraries of the Dutch Caribbean Curaçao, September 25 & 26, 2008 National Library of Jamaica, Portrait: Sam Sharpe

2. Free, Open Access Digital Library

3. Trilingual

4. with Advanced Search Functions

5. Partner Collections

6. Partner Collections

7. Wordmark Attribution

8. Page Image

9. Aware Zoom Technology

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12. Full-Text Search Capability <Content> <pre> I. OUTWARD BOUNDON a very cold day in December I stood on the deck of the steamerMadiana as she slowly pushed her waythrough the ice toward the Narrowsbelow New York. After leaving the luxurious Waldorfto face the biting cold winds and ac-commodate one's self to the surround-ings which the steamer affords, I mustsay I did not wonder at my friendsasking how I could choose to take suchan out-of-the-way sort of trip. Notthat the Madiana is an uncomfortableboat, for that would be doing it an in-justice, but I anticipated a second Ma-jestic or Teutonic, and in this I wasdisappointed. </pre> </Content> From: Morris, Ira Nelson. With the trade-winds; a jaunt in Venezuela and the West Indies. G. P. Putnam, New York 1897. Contributed by the University of Central Florida

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14. Map-It Function Satellite View

15. 3-D Flash Viewer 180 images of the object are linked together in a Flash Viewer to provide a 360 ° rotating image

16. And coming soon – Thematic Collections Current proposed themes: -Caribbean Maps -Caribbean Newspapers ­Economic Development -Education -Environment -Health / Disease ­Law ­Literature, Arts, and Culture ­Migration ­Race/Class/Gender -Religion ­Politics, Government ­Slavery and Resistance

17. What is dLOC? Our beginnings… 2002 – US Virgin Islands History and Culture Collection Collaboration with the University of Virgin Islands, University of Florida, Florida International University, and others 2004 – dLOC is born Leaders present dLOC at ACURIL, organize planning meeting and submit funding proposal to U.S. Dept. of Education 2005 – dLOC receives Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access Award to fund project for four years MISSION: “dLOC’s diverse partners will serve an international community of scholars, students and citizens by working together to electronically preserve and provide enhanced electronic access to cultural, historical, and research materials in a common web space with a multilingual interface.” dLOC Bylaws, October 2006

26. A Peek into the Process 1) Select Materials 2) Digitize 3) Submit via Toolkit

27. Possibilities for Partnership -- Ideas from the Group What digital projects do you all have in process? How do you envision future collaboration between the Dutch Caribbean Libraries and dLOC?