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A new Project Coordinator was hired and began
working this month.
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We have developed a new name and logo for
the project. It will now be called The Caribbean Collection: An
Archival Survey of the Records of the Jamaican and Trinidadian Communities
of Brooklyn. The project web site and informational literature
will be updated with the new title and logo
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Contact has been reestablished with the members
of the Advisory Committee. Efforts
have also been made to identify new members to augment the committee.
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We were put in contact with John Baynes, the
head of the Black Ministry of the Brooklyn Diocese. He provided the
project with a complete list of Brooklyn Catholic Churches that serve the
Caribbean Community. These churches were subsequently contacted by
telephone and sent packages containing the project pamphlet and brochure.
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Telephone contact was established with referrals
made by the Jamaican Consul General, Dr. Basil K. Bryan. Some of
these organizations are connections to the historically significant progressive
and benevolent associations that assisted in Jamaica's struggle for independence.
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Efforts to reestablish contact with the previously
compiled list of community organizations is continuous.
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Two organizations are in the process of being
surveyed. Through these organizations, important and historical networks
are being identified and contacted. The web site will be updated
with new developments as they arise.
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The project
survey form, now tested, has been revised. The new form has clear
divisions for detail for each organization, and then at the records, and
series levels of arrangement. Also, multiple fields were created
at the series level to allow arrangement, size, and condition information
to be specifically attached to each format.
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The Project web site was updated with additional
information posted on the Archival Links
page and the Bibliography page. The
web site has also been included in a link from Manchester University's
Race
Relation's Archive site.
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Academic research about the Jamaican, Trinidadian
& Tobagonian, and Pan-Caribbean community continues so that the survey
will accurately reflect the dynamics of the community.
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