1. Margarita Vargas-Betancourt
A Collaborative US-Mexican Partnership to Digitize Endangered Mexican Jewish Periodicals 
Margarita Vargas-Betancourt
Latin American and Caribbean Collection 
Rebecca J. W. Jefferson
Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica

2. Content: US-Mexican Partnership Significance of the Project
The Newspaper Project
Challenges and Lessons Learned

3. US-Mexican Partnership:
Latin-American and Caribbean materials at UF
Collecting Latin American and Caribbean Judaica
A brief history of the Centro Centro de Documentación e Investigación Judío de México (CDIJUM)
Natural Disasters and the Importance of International Partnerships

4. Significance of the Project:
Brief history of the Jewish community of Mexico
Jewish newspapers: history and significance
Mexican Jewish newspapers as historical sources and as agents of community cohesion and acculturation with wider Mexican society and other Latin American groups

5. The Newspaper Project:
Kesher newspaper at UF and CDIJUM
The Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Jewish Disapora Collection
Grants from the Latin American Research Resources Project (LARRP)
Mexican vendor DocSolutions
Current state of the Project

6. Challenges and Lessons Learned:
Difficulties working with international partners: different expectations and standards; clear communication
Going forward: communicating standards, establishing expectations, establishing roles

7. Any questions? Margarita Vargas-Betancourt
address:
Rebecca J. W. Jefferson
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