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CIFNAL and ARTFL (University of Chicago) are collaborating with the Médiathèque de l’agglomération troyenne (MAT) to add text-searching and analysis capabilities to its collection of the Bibliothèque Bleue. The project aims to create a searchable digital library of chapbooks from France printed in the 17th to the early 19th centuries. ARTFL has generously provided the initial funding for this project.
Bibliothèque Bleue [11] is characterized as works of popular literature—fiction, popularized histories, advice manuals—printed in France on inexpensive blue paper and sold by itinerant vendors on the streets. MAT (the municipal library of Troyes) has one of the most important collections of works of this genre. Its collection contains more than 2,500 works, almost 700 of which were printed in Troyes.
MAT has begun to digitize these works, and has contributed nearly 300 texts for marking up by CIFNAL/ARTFL. To date, ARTFL has created double-keyed and tagged texts of 116 titles, using TEI-light encoding and incorporating into ARTFL’s PhiloLogic database. The texts are available at: https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/node/170 [11].
Coordinators: Sarah Sussman (Stanford), Mark Olsen and Robert Morrissey (ARTFL), Monsieur Thierry Delcourt (MAT).
For more information about the Médiathèque de l’agglomération troyenne and its collections and projects, please visit https://troyes-champagne-mediatheque.fr/ [12]
In accordance with a memorandum of understanding between CIFNAL and the Digital Library of the Caribbean [14] (dLOC), the goal of this project is to work together to improve and increase electronic access to francophone documents. These may represent collections located in the French Caribbean or outside of the French Caribbean with a focus on this region.
Currently collaborating with the Haitian National Archives and other cultural collections in Haiti, dLOC and its francophone partners have concluded historic agreements to preserve and expand access to vital documents and materials. The success of the dLOC model is based on mutual international cooperation. CIFNAL members will bring additional linguistic and cultural assets to help dLOC reach out to new French-speaking partners.
Specifically, the two groups will work together to address needs related to:
This is an excellent time to begin volunteering time to the project and there are many ways your expertise can help. Whether working on collection development projects or helping assure the quality of the dLOC web site and its French language content and OCR data, there are a myriad of ways to get involved today. One of the easiest is simply to sign up for a MYdLOC account which will allow you to submit new materials online to the digital library and also add and edit metadata directly. Please sign up today at the following address: http://www.dloc.com/ufdc/?a=dloc1&m=hmp [15]
CIFNAL members who have questions about this project should contact Hélène Huet [16].
This project aims to identify, locate, and publicize major sets of microfilm pertaining to the history, culture, language, and literature of France and francophone countries. The selected microfilm resources have significant research value and reflect holdings in European and North American libraries and archives.
This list can be found on the French Microform Sets page [18] of the European Studies Section Libguides [19].
This project was coordinated by Ceres Birkhead, University of Utah.
Please contact CIFNAL [20] for additional information.
Coordinator: Collection Development Working Group
This project has created and will sustain a database and map of very strong French and Francophone collections at institutions in the United States and Canada. The initial database was compiled by Anne-Charlotte Pivot, an intern from ENSSIB in 2017. Anne-Charlotte prepared a detailed explanation of the rationale behind the project and how to best use the database, which is available in both English and French. https://cifnalcollections.wordpress.com/ [22]
Launched in 2022, CIFNAL's Engaging Francophone Partners Working Group developed its 'Speaker Series,' designed to connect CIFNAL members and interested parties with vendors, librarians, scholars, and bibliographers in the area of French and Francophone studies. Videos from each talk are available below.
Kathia Ibacache
Access to The Haitian Zombie in Academic Collections
May 31, 2024 - 1-2 EST Register here [24]
CRL negotiates on behalf of CIFNAL institutions to license specialized French-language databases for members of CIFNAL. The CIFNAL Collection Development Working Group [35] plays an active roled in identifying databases of interest to CIFNAL and identifying the subscription terms that would be acceptable to CIFNAL institutions.
More details about each of these offers can be found in eDesiderata [36]. Access to offer information on eDesiderata is available only to logged-in members.
CIFNAL currently facilitates subscriptions for its members for the electronic resources listed below:
Created in September 2005 by four French-language academic publishers (Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte and Erès) and with the cooperation of the National Library of France and the National Book Center of France, Cairn [37] offers the most comprehensive collection of recent issues of French and Belgian journals in the humanities and social sciences available online. Cairn's collections go back as far as 2001 for some titles. Subscribing institutions may select one of several packages offered.
The publishing house Classiques Garnier was established in 1833 to provide edited editions of classical, French, and worldwide literature. Series of critical essays in the humanities and social sciences were introduced in 1896. The first electronic content was offered in 1985, with a new series of electronic editions launched in 1998. Online resources available currently from Classiques Garnier Numérique [38] include databases of primary source texts, classic works of criticism, and dictionaries.
Electronic Enlightenment [39] is a full-text database of 18th-century primary sources from key figures of the Enlightenment. Contains texts from nearly 6,000 correspondents, 53,000 letters and documents, and nearly 230,000 critical annotations taken from major printed editions of correspondence from academic presses worldwide.
Érudit [40] is a publishing platform for scholarly and cultural journals, books, proceedings, theses, documents, and data developed by a nonprofit Canadian publishing consortium founded in 1998. Archival runs of journal publications published prior to a moving wall of current content are available through open access, while the remainder is available through subscription.
Le Grand Robert [41] contains the entirety of the Grand Robert de la Langue Française in 6 volumes (his last edition). The online version makes accessible the 100,000 word definitions and 325,000 quotations from this prestigious dictionary.
The L’Harmathèque [42]'s platform offers a large volume of content in the form of ebooks, articles, videos, and audio recordings on many subjects in the humanities and social sciences. One notable subject area is Africana.The content of the ebooks comes from a variety of French publishing imprints, including L’Harmattan, Pagala, Odin, and IXE.
In 2012, the long-established Klapp bibliography of French literature was converted into a database covering the years 1991–2011, presented as Klapp-Online [43]. Annual updates will be released each fall, integrated with the cumulative coverage. The publishers plan to continue with annual printed volumes as well.
The Numérique Premium [44] platform including ebooks from 70 French-speaking publishers and societies. The database is offered as an annual subscription or a one-off purchase for chosen thematic collections. It provides access to secondary works and some compilations of source materials in both “humanities and social sciences.”
OpenEdition [45] serves the humanities and social sciences research communities through four publication and information platforms: OpenEdition Books (books series), Revues.org (scientific journals), Calenda, (academic announcements), and Hypotheses (research blogs). In 2015, all platforms receive 5 million visitors per month from all around the world. OpenEdition is developed by the Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cleo), a non-profit public initiative promoting Open Access academic publishing, with the support of the main French research institutions. Since 2011, OpenEdition is complemented by a Freemium programme addressing libraries’ specific needs in a variety of formats and services.
Some offers may be exclusive to CIFNAL members. Institutions are encouraged to join CIFNAL [46].
The Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) participated in a planning grant to investigate digitization and cataloging of French Revolution Era Pamphlets. The original intent was to create a catalog that would be a database resource able to link users to full-text, digital facsimiles of French pamphlets made accessible by CIFNAL member institutions, international partner collections, and other freely accessible digital library collections, such as the Bibliothèque Nationale de France’s Gallica collection.
A core group of interested CIFNAL members participated in the project, which was led by librarians at the University of Florida. Project partners discussed many challenges and options for enhancing discoverability of French Pamphlets. Several of the project participants conducted environmental scans of their French Pamphlet collections, and a small amount of funding was provided to the Newberry Library and the University of Maryland library to digitize additional pamphlets and test workflows.
For more information, Contact CIFNAL [20].
Links
[1] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/current-projects/bibliotheque-bleue
[2] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/current-projects/dloc
[3] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/current-projects/microfilm-project
[4] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/current-projects/strong-subject-collections
[5] https://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-2012-06-0026-006
[6] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/current-projects/electronic-resources
[7] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/current-projects/french-pamphlets
[8] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/current-projects/cifnal-speaker-series
[9] https://www.crl.edu/fr/node/6170
[10] http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/BibBl/searchform.html
[11] https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/node/170
[12] https://troyes-champagne-mediatheque.fr/
[13] https://www.crl.edu/fr/grn/cifnal/current-projects/bibliotheque-bleue
[14] http://www.dloc.com
[15] http://www.dloc.com/ufdc/?a=dloc1&m=hmp
[16] mailto:hhuet@ufl.edu
[17] https://www.crl.edu/fr/grn/cifnal/current-projects/dloc
[18] https://acrl.libguides.com/c.php?g=1009170&p=7738359
[19] https://acrl.libguides.com/ess
[20] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/contact-cifnal
[21] https://www.crl.edu/fr/grn/cifnal/current-projects/microfilm-project
[22] https://cifnalcollections.wordpress.com/
[23] https://www.crl.edu/fr/grn/cifnal/current-projects/strong-subject-collections
[24] https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErcuGhrTIqEtVjdlKCHupjv67fbUkOprM2
[25] https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/130849?mode=full
[26] https://play.library.utoronto.ca/watch/568645684740cad5b47cc5e96d4fa1db
[27] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/Collecting%20Francophone%20comic%20books-Aur%C3%A9lie%20Amalivre.pdf
[28] https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/IR00011827/00001
[29] https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/IR00011808/00001
[30] http://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/IR00011784/00001
[31] https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/l/IR00011772/00001
[32] https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/IR00011749/00001
[33] https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/l/IR00011743/00001
[34] https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/IR00011726/00001
[35] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/working-groups
[36] http://edesiderata.crl.edu/
[37] http://www.cairn.info
[38] https://classiques-garnier.com/classique-garnier-numerique-en.html
[39] http://www.e-enlightenment.com
[40] http://www.erudit.org/
[41] http://lerobert.demarque.com/
[42] https://www.harmattan.fr/groupeharmattan/
[43] http://www.klostermann.de/epages/63574303.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/63574303/Categories/EMedien/KlappOnline
[44] \\www.numeriquepremium.com=
[45] http://www.openedition.org/
[46] https://www.crl.edu/grn/cifnal/about-cifnal/join
[47] https://www.crl.edu/fr/node/7365
[48] https://www.crl.edu/fr/fr/grn/cifnal/current-projects/french-pamphlets