ILL Form

Notice: The most Recent ILL Form has been placed in the Ready Reference folder in the CLAHPL Google Drive account. Included is a visual guide for access;

Begin by accessing the shared gmail account. From here you click on the Google Apps icon. 

This opens the dropdown menu, in which you choose Goggle Drive.

 This will bring you to the list of Files and Folders in your google drive. 

From here, you can  double click on the ILL form to download it and print it out. 

Now you may question my motives in including such a highly detailed guide, and you'd be right in doing so. 

I'm interested to hear what other files you think should be included here. 

This would be any form or document you find yourself reaching for on a regular basis. This could include finding aids, internal documents, or really anything you'd like to have on hand to disseminate to a patron. The goal is to collect frequently used documents in one place that every one uses. 

I'm all ears! - MM/CLA

ProQuest Obituaries Database --- Available Substitutes

The Digital Newspapers Finding Aid has been updated to reflect the dropping of ProQuest Obituaries. Affected newspapers include:

Los Angeles Time 1881-1984
Washington Post 1877-1950
Atlanta Constitution 1868-1922
Chicago Defender 1921-1975
Chicago Tribune 1852-1984
Boston Globe 1872-1922
New York Times 1851-1994

Please note that there are still some full-text, stand-alone newspaper databases for the following titles:

Washington Post 1904-1921 (Fold3)
Atlanta Constitution 1868-1923 (Fold3)
Chicago Defender 1910-1975 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Chicago Tribune 1849-1923 (Fold3)
New York Times 1851-2006 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

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Online Cuban Genealogy Resource

From Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

According to an article by Alexandra Pecharich in the Florida International University News, the Florida International University Libraries has unveiled an online resource to help families of the Cuban diaspora research their roots—and already several have hit pay dirt.

An extensive set of family trees, civil records and sacramental documents is now available on the Internet. It references thousands of Hispanic surnames and gives everyone from the Abadias to the Zúñigas the opportunity to search for their ancestors. The material comes from the Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza Collection of Cuban Genealogy, a treasure trove that also features hard copies of more than 3,500 17th and 18th century books, long out-of-print publications and periodicals that few, if any, other U.S. libraries hold. The online offerings can be accessed by going to FIU’s Digital Library of the Caribbean and searching by last name.

“The breadth and depth of the collection is outstanding,” said Lourdes Del Pino, who helped prepare materials for placing online. “All Cubans, and I mean all Cubans, no matter where you were from, your station in life, every Cuban will find something about their family, I have no doubt.”
You can read more at http://news.fiu.edu/2015/06/cuban-equivalent-of-ancestry-com-a-boon-to-family-historians/88594.