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>Felicitations to Carlos Delgado who made it to
>the news this weekend in the San Francisco
>Examiner and today in the San Francisco Chronicle
>
> Charles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer
>
> Monday, September 11,
> 2000
>
> Enter the imposing main library at
> the
> University of California at Berkeley and
> suddenly you're in a different world -- of
> marble busts, quiet concentration and Fidel
> Castro.
>
> Beneath the unflinching visage of Homer, the
> revolutionary leader is now on display under
> glass in the lobby, along with Che Guevarra,
> Jose Marti and other Cuban heroes. Their
> faces adorn the covers of newly obtained
> books that the campus is proudly exhibiting
> to celebrate a first-of-its-kind exchange
> between UC and Cuba's national library.
>
> Campus officials say the Cuba collection is
> apolitical, but given the long-standing U.S.
> trade embargo and official animosity against
> the communist island nation, the 17- case
> exhibit possesses the aura of a forbidden
> zone. There's a taboo feeling to ``The CIA's
> War Against Cuba'' and other samples of
> Cuba's revolutionary Marxism.
>
> ``It is the first time that a major research
> library has attempted to develop an exchange
> or cooperative agreement with the National
> Library of Cuba,'' said Carlos Delgado,
> librarian for Latin American collections at UC
> Berkeley.
>
> Under the pact, Cuba is donating extra
> copies of books, journals, posters and other
> materials to UC. The vast majority are in
> Spanish and from the latter half of the 20th
> century. The university has already received
> about 2,000 volumes and expects 300 to 400
> a year for the next two years at least, Delgado
> said. It is also receiving about 1,000
> examples of Cuba's visually dramatic poster
> art.
>
> Interim University Librarian Thomas Leonard
> lauded the partnership, calling it ``the opening
> of a door to materials that are rare in
> American research libraries.''
>
> It is also a good deal for the Jose Marti
> National Library, which is Cuba's equivalent
> of the Library of Congress, except much
> poorer.
>
> UC will offer technical assistance on the
> preservation and digitalization of Cuba's
> national collection. The university will also
> assist in compiling a comprehensive
> bibliography of Cuban material and will send
> U.S.-published books about Cuba to the
> Cuban library.
>
> The most striking part of the archive may be
> the Cuban poster art. ``In the case of Cuba,
> as in the case of Mexico, posters are really
> important,'' Delgado said. ``They're used as
> education tools for the masses.''
>
> The agreement calls for the posters to be
> digitally recorded and placed for
> noncommercial viewing on the UC library's
> Web pages, but that part of the pact is still
> awaiting approval from Cuban authorities,
> Delgado said.
>
> The poster component of the collection will
> also draw on the Cuban posters already
> viewable on the home page of a UC graduate
> student, Lincoln Cushing, at
> www.sims.berkeley.edu/lcush/CubaGen.html.
> Cushing, who was born in Cuba, has
> amassed a large personal collection over the
> years.
>
> The exchange, approved by the U.S.
> Treasury Department in May as a
> noncommercial exemption to the trade
> embargo, was organized by Delgado, who
> met Cuba's national librarian through the
> Association of Latin American National
> Libraries.
>
> For UC Berkeley, the materials help remedy a
> shortage in its Caribbean collection and
> narrow the gap between UC and Stanford
> with regard to holdings of revolutionary
> Marxist materials.
>
> It also will give the university one of the
> largest collections of Cuban materials,
> Delgado said. Others include the collections
> at Stanford and the University of Miami.
>
> E-mail Charles Burress at
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>Adan Griego
>Curator for Latin American,
>Mexican American & Iberian Collections
>Green Library-FLAC
>Stanford University
>Stanford, CA 94305-6004
>(650) 723-3150 / 725-1068 (fax)
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