Public Library of the State of Jalisco, Mexico “Juan José Arreola” Dr. Juan Manuel Durán Juárez Director http://bipeja.udg.mx Relevant Information - Founded in 1861 - Belows to University of Guadalajara since 1925 http://bipeja.udg.mx 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 http://bipeja.udg.mx Relevant Information - Around 160,000 volumes of historical books - Miscellaneous (11,000 leaflets in 905 volumes) http://bipeja.udg.mx Relevant Information • There are more than 350,000 historical documents of the sixteenth century until the first half of the twentieth century • Collection of 300 titles Codices http://bipeja.udg.mx Relevant Information • Various Privated Libraries • Historical Hemeroteca 1821 to date • Mapoteca (586 titles, does not include atlases from sixteenth century) http://bipeja.udg.mx Bibliographic Treasures • Collection of Books of Indigenous Languages (128 titles) • Incunabula group • First Mexican Prints • Archive Franciscan Fund http://bipeja.udg.mx 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) http://bipeja.udg.mx 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) http://bipeja.udg.mx 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 http://bipeja.udg.mx http://bipeja.udg.mx http://bipeja.udg.mx Digitalization Project of the Historical Funds http://bipeja.udg.mx Building Digital Libraries Digital libraries offer significant benefits, As follows: Always available New access forms Improved access Improved information interchange Wide access Improved preservation http://bipeja.udg.mx 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 http://bipeja.udg.mx Digitalization Project 2007 http://bipeja.udg.mx 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 http://bipeja.udg.mx 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. http://bipeja.udg.mx 17 Alejandro Solis Matias, [email protected] Juan Carlos Castellanos R, [email protected] http://bipeja.udg.mx