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“CREATING MULTILINGUAL FINDING
AIDS: CUBAN COLLECTIONS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA”
Margarita Vargas-Betancourt
Caribbean Basin Librarian
University of Florida
July 2014
SCOPE AND MISSION OF THE GEORGE A. SMATHERS
LIBRARIES’ LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN
COLLECTION
1930s President John J. Tigert creates the
Institute for Inter-American Affairs
at the University of Florida (UF).
1948 Farmington Plan
1951 The Farmington Plan assigned UF
as the repository for Caribbean
material.
2007 Mission of the George A. Smathers
Libraries: to support the needs of
faculty, students, and the rest of
the University of Florida
BRAGA BROTHERS COLLECTION
DOCUMENTOS DE RAFAEL MARTÍNEZ PUPO
EN RELACIÓN A LOS COMANDOS MAMBISES
COLECCIÓN DE CARLOS GONZÁLEZ BLANCO
DOCUMENTOS DE LA FAMILIA ROMERO RELACIONADOS
A JOSÉ MARTÍ
BILINGUAL EXHIBITS
CONTACT INFORMATION
Margarita Vargas-Betancourt
Caribbean Basin Librarian
University of Florida
mvargasb@ufl.edu