PLALA Projects - 2004
January, 2004
Two joint microfilming projects with Fundación Antorchas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. $19,000:
-Biblioteca Juan A. Carrizo, Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A project to microfilm the 1921 "Encuesta de Folklore."
-Museo Histórico Provincial de Rosario "Julio Marc," Rosario, Argentina. A project to microfilm the newspaper La Tribuna, 1928-1948;
May, 2004
Archivo Fotográfico y Documental del Museo Etnográfico "Juan B. Ambrosetti," Buenos Aires, Argentina. A project to catalog and preserve the Eric Boman collection of archeological and related papers, which particularly focus on Argentina's Northwest. $7,800.
Archivo General Histórico, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Santiago, Chile. A project to describe and preserve 2,000 historic photographs from the Archivo's collections. $8,800.
Archivo Histórico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires "Dr. Ricardo Levene," La Plata, Argentina. A project to rehouse the materials in the Archivo's "Fondo Real Audiencia," which encompasses the period 1680-1830. $6,700.
Archivo y Biblioteca Históricos de Salta, Salta, Argentina. A project to describe and preserve some 70 folders/42,000 leaves of "phantom" historical manuscripts that either arrived piecemeal or, over time, have been separated from their collections of origin. $11,470.
Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, El Colegio de México, México. A project to digitize the Boletín de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística, an extraordinarily important journal that was founded in 1839. $14,000.
Biblioteca Teatral de La Plata "Alberto Mediza," La Plata, Argentina. A project to conserve the library's most rare or unusual materials. $3,500.
August, 2004
Archivo General del Estado de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. The second phase of a
project to index and provide metadata for previously digitized materials from the Archivo's "Fondo Archivo Notarial." $5,000.
Biblioteca Arnon de Mello, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. A project to prepare preservation
microfilm of the Gazeta de Alagoas for the period 1955-1978. $10,000.
Biblioteca, Museo y Archivo Ricardo Levene, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A project to clean, house, organize, and describe newly discovered materials from the collection. $5,000.
Fundación de Ayuda Social de las Iglesias Cristianas, Santiago, Chile. A project to
organize and preserve the Fundación's historic holdings. $10,000.
Registro Civil del Estado Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela. A project to conserve and
catalog the "Criminales" series of the Registro's holdings, covering the period 1804-1920. $14,000.
Unidad de Servicios Bibliotecarios y de Información, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa,
Veracruz, Mexico. The second phase of a project to organize and preserve the Unidad's
"Fondo Antiguo." $15,000.
December, 2004
Archivo Histórico de la Provincia del Chaco "Monseñor José Alumni," Resistencia, Chaco,
Argentina. A project to microfilm the newspaper "El Territorio," beginning in 1970. $10,000.
Archivo Histórico de Tarija, Tarija, Bolivia. A project to organize and catalog the Hemeroteca of the Archivo Histórico de Tarija. $4,000.
Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. A project to conserve, catalog, and
microfilm materials from the Arquivo's "Juízo dos Resíduos" holdings. $10,500.
Biblioteca, Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos "Bartolomé de Las Casas," Cuzco, Peru. A
project to receive and organize the Biblioteca "R. Tom Zuidema" within the Centro. $12,000.
Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas en la Argentina (CeDInCI), Buenos Aires, Argentina. A project to organize and preserve the Centro's "Fondo
de Archivo José Ingenieros." $20,000.