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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 Slide 2 SCOPE AND MISSION OF THE GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN COLLECTION 1930sPresident John J. Tigert creates the Institute for Inter-American Affairs at the University of Florida (UF). 1948Farmington Plan 1951The Farmington Plan assigned UF as the repository for Caribbean material. 2007Mission of the George A. Smathers Libraries: to support the needs of faculty, students, and the rest of the University of Florida Slide 3 BRAGA BROTHERS COLLECTION Slide 4 DOCUMENTOS DE RAFAEL MARTNEZ PUPO EN RELACIN A LOS COMANDOS MAMBISES Slide 5 COLECCIN DE CARLOS GONZLEZ BLANCO Slide 6 DOCUMENTOS DE LA FAMILIA ROMERO RELACIONADOS A JOS MART Slide 7 BILINGUAL EXHIBITS Slide 8 CONTACT INFORMATION Margarita Vargas-Betancourt Caribbean Basin Librarian University of Florida mvargasb@ufl.edu