Yesterday’s News Tomorrow: Preserving Mexican Newspapers, 1807-1929

Benavides, Adán

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:7990)

Abstract:

The University of Texas at Austin has regularly collected Mexican newspapers, especially since the Mexican Revolution that ended in 1917. The purchase of the formidable Genaro García Collection in 1921 brought to the University scores of what were already then, and are especially now, very rare nineteenth- and early twentieth-century newspapers. Other collections acquired by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection1 also contained Mexican newspapers. These acquisitions include the Alejandro Prieto Library, purchased in 1941, that is particularly rich in Tamaulipas newspapers, and the Miguel Bolaños Cacho Papers, acquired in 1986, containing newspapers from Oaxaca and Baja California. Several former students and faculty members of the University have contributed newspapers as well.

Creation: 2004
Keywords: Prensa ; Preservación ; Digitalización ; México

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