Public Library of the State of Jalisco, Mexico

Public Library of the State of
Jalisco, Mexico
“Juan José Arreola”
Dr. Juan Manuel Durán Juárez
Director
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Relevant Information
- Founded in 1861
- Belows to University of
Guadalajara since 1925
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Relevant Information
-There are 11 volumes
incunabula (1450-1500)
-Books printed before 1501 are said to belong
to the incunabula era of printing.
-3,000 printed books during
the sixteenth century
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Relevant Information
- Around 160,000
volumes of historical
books
- Miscellaneous
(11,000 leaflets in 905
volumes)
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Relevant Information
• There are more than
350,000 historical
documents of the
sixteenth century until
the first half of the
twentieth century
• Collection of 300 titles
Codices
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Relevant Information
• Various Privated
Libraries
• Historical Hemeroteca
1821 to date
• Mapoteca (586 titles,
does not include
atlases from sixteenth
century)
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Bibliographic Treasures
• Collection of Books of
Indigenous Languages
(128 titles)
• Incunabula group
• First Mexican Prints
• Archive Franciscan Fund
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Archivos
• Archives of the Royal
Court of New Galicia,
sixteenth century to the
first decade of the
nineteenth century
• Archives of the
Supreme Court of
Justice (1822-1940)
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Colecciones en Microfilm
• Washington DC National
File Fund from 1910 to
1939, Consular Reports
from the USA Ambassadors
in Mexico
• Births, Marriages and
Deceases from
Guadalajara’s Dioceses,
Seventieth century to
twentieth (Mormon Church
from Salt Lake City, USA)
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UNESCO-BIPEJA
• The collection of
Indigenous
Languages which
consists of 128
books in 166
volumes of the
sixteenth century to
twentieth century,
was declared
Memory of the World
by UNESCO
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Digitalization Project of the
Historical Funds
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Building Digital Libraries
Digital libraries offer significant benefits,
As follows:
Always available
New access forms
Improved access
Improved information
interchange
Wide access
Improved preservation
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Main Objectives of Digitalization
• Preserving the documents, to
allow people to read them
without damaging the originals
• Make the documents more
accessible to users
• Consultation simultaneously to
specific search results
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Digitalization Project 2007
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Digitalization for 2008
Funds
Number of
Images
File Royal Audience
TREASURE
European Prints of the
sixteenth century
1,215,885
Civil Area
321,000
Codices
43,030
Reserved Fund
29,070
Supreme Court
1,400,000
Calendars
20,070
Subtotal
1,764,000
Indigenous languages
1,382
Subtotal
1,267,236
FIRST FLOOR (Historical
Fund Headquarters)
Printed in Guadalajara
nineteenth century
676,953
Historic Book
209,527
Agustín Rivera y San Román
2,476
Collection
Jorge Enciso
Subtotal
115,562
1,004,518
Hemeroteca
Several Newspapers
800,000
Subtotal
800,000
Contemporary
Heritage
(Alcalde Headquarters)
Bibliography of Jalisco
1,164,266
Subtotal
1,164,266
TOTAL Number of Images
6,000,000
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Summarizing
• We continue with the digitalization of
historical heritage of the Public Library
which will result on more than 11 million
images by the year 2008
• The investment is about of 10 million
pesos.
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Alejandro Solis Matias,
solismatias@yahoo.com
Juan Carlos Castellanos R,
juancarlos@redudg.udg.mx
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