ACCESSING A MAJOR RUN OF HAITI GAZETTE
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1The hero in these negotiations was Jeremy Lambeth, then a ICT Specialist working in Haiti for ICATT Consulting Inc, of Wash., D.C.. Jeremy has since moved on to become a candidate for a Mas-ter’s Degree in Sustainable Development at the Univ. of Florida’s Center for African and Latin American Studies. He was the essential mediator between Michael Macy, Counselor for Public Affairs at the Port-au-Prince embassy; Brooke Wooldridge, Program Dir., Digital Library of the Caribbean, Florida International Univ. Libraries; and LLMC.
2The footwork at Tulane was deftly executed by James Duggan, Law Lib. Dir.; who got his dean, David D. Meyer, to write a compelling letter for-mally making the requisite commitments. Tulane proved an especially attractive candidate for State Department consideration because of the geographic, historic, and economic links between New Orleans and the Caribbean region; and uniquely with Haiti’s predecessor, the French Colony of St.Domingue. Having these materials available at the Law Library will also be of significance to faculty and researchers at Tulane’s distinguished Stone Center for Latin American Studies. The latter institution will find the Le Moniteur run to be a valuable supplement to its existing store of Haitian and Kreyòl materials, which is housed in Tulane’s main University Library, less than a block away from the Law School.