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Items included in this collection represent the diverse products generated by the academic and creative labor of UPRM's faculty members. These may include textual documents (research articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, etc.), conference presentations outside of UPRM, research posters, and other products such as maps, graphics, or computer code. To learn more about what works can be submitted to this collection, visit https://libguides.uprm.edu/repositorioUPRM/facultad
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PublicationThe Oral History Lab @UPRM( 2023-10-21)This poster provides an introduction to the Oral History Lab of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, detailing its objectives and work.
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PublicationThe Oral History Lab @UPRM: Decolonial Practice On, Across, & Beyond Campus( 2023-10-20)In September 2017, Hurricane María made landfall in the Puerto Rican archipelago, triggering floods and mudslides, washing out roads, destroying homes, farms, and businesses, causing the largest blackout in US history, knocking out communications, leading to food, water, and gasoline shortages, and ultimately causing thousands of deaths. Just weeks after the hurricane, faculty at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez began a bilingual, mass-listening project that placed hundreds of undergraduate students in their home communities to record the stories that mattered most to them told by the people most important to them. Trained in antiracist and decolonial methodologies as well as trauma-informed approaches, students and faculty have recorded almost 500 oral histories to date that are focused on the stratified disasters of hurricanes, an ongoing earthquake swarm, COVID-19, a worsening economic crisis, and the complicated relationship between Puerto Rico and the US. The panel includes three presentations, each one dedicated respectively to: (1) The oral history courses that we have developed on the UPRM campus for undergraduate students, ones that serve as general education courses on a campus in which the majority of matriculated students self-identify as English as a second language speakers; (2) The training and mentorship program that we have developed for community partners across the Puerto Rican archipelago to support them through the development, archiving, and dissemination of their own oral history projects; and (3) The oral history digital archive @UPRM—and its bilingual metadata scheme—as both a means of teaching students and community partners how to reposition their perceptions of themselves as knowledge producers and a repository established to aid global research. The three presentations on this panel articulate some the ways in which multiple on-campus assets and off-campus community organizations can collaborate on oral history for social justice projects. Furthermore, these presentations theorize oral history as a decolonial pedagogical model that undermines traditional, counterproductive divisions between both academic discipline and on- and off-campus communities as they work to record, archive, and disseminate essential stories of climate disaster and community ingenuity.
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PublicationEstrategias para hacer crecer un repositorio institucional: Identificación de desafíos y aprovechamiento de oportunidades de colaboración multidisciplinaria( 2023-06)El repositorio institucional de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez, llamado Scholar@UPRM, se estableció en el 2017. Uno de los objetivos principales es dar amplia visibilidad a la labor investigativa y creativa realizada en la institución. Durante el 2022, Scholar@UPRM recibió más de 139,700 visitas, evidenciando el gran valor de la plataforma. Un 91% de estas fue a la colección de tesis y disertaciones, haciendo del repositorio la fuente principal para acceder a dichos trabajos. No obstante, un desafío significativo ha sido recopilar los trabajos investigativos de docentes, siendo pocos los que han depositado sus obras. Igualmente, son escasos los trabajos de estudiantes subgraduados que figuran en el repositorio. Este cartel presenta iniciativas desarrolladas desde la biblioteca para fomentar el crecimiento de Scholar@UPRM. En el caso de los docentes, se realizó un estudio para identificar los factores que han inhibido a miembros de esta comunidad de depositar sus obras. El desconocimiento sobre la existencia y uso del repositorio, dudas sobre derechos de autor y cuestionamientos sobre el alcance de difusión que ofrece Scholar@UPRM fueron algunos factores identificados. Otra iniciativa consistió en establecer alianzas multidisciplinarias entre la biblioteca y docentes de las áreas de Inglés y Cine para crear el Laboratorio de Historia Oral, unidad dedicada a recopilar entrevistas de historia oral y producir documentales sobre temas que afectan a comunidades puertorriqueñas, como la inseguridad alimentaria y los desastres naturales. Estos productos se depositan en el repositorio para su diseminación y preservación.
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PublicationSurviving stratified disasters: Collaborative approach to collecting and preserving oral histories( 2022-06-07)Durante los últimos seis años, Puerto Rico ha sido sacudido por una oleada de desastres estratificados, múltiples catástrofes simultáneas que afectan a la población de maneras diferentes pero interrelacionadas. La implacable depresión económica provocó el establecimiento de una junta de control fiscal designada bajo la Ley PROMESA, lo que condujo a la imposición de duras medidas de austeridad. Además, los huracanes Irma y María causaron una devastación extrema en septiembre de 2017, a principios de 2019 se produjo el comienzo de un enjambre de terremotos que eventualmente se contaron por miles (incluido uno con una magnitud de 6,4 en la escala de Richter), y 2020 trajo el inicio de la Pandemia de COVID-19. La Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez (UPRM) no se ha librado ya que ha sido objeto de recortes presupuestarios extremos que han traído como consecuencia la eliminación de puestos docentes y el deterioro de la infraestructura y los servicios, con un aumento también de la precariedad estudiantil. El proyecto “Escuchando a Puerto Rico: La promesa de la historia oral en el campus y más allá” surge como respuesta a este escenario de desastres estratificados. El principal objetivo de este proyecto colaborativo, que reúne a la Biblioteca General, el Departamento de Inglés y el Programa de Cine del RUM, es la creación de un Laboratorio de Historia Oral (OHL). La OHL estará alojada en la Biblioteca General y será un espacio enfocado en la colección, preservación y amplia difusión de historias orales de todo el archipiélago puertorriqueño, particularmente, aquellas que tocan las experiencias de los miembros de la comunidad a medida que han navegado por los muchos desafíos de estos tiempos difíciles. Se mejorará la preservación, la administración y la visibilidad de los materiales a través de su depósito en el repositorio institucional en línea del RUM, Scholar@UPRM. La creación de la OHL es un ejemplo de cómo las bibliotecas académicas que enfrentan circunstancias precarias pueden forjar alianzas multidisciplinarias estratégicas con socios del campus para diseñar proyectos creativos que aborden directamente los eventos históricos locales y, al mismo tiempo, producir colecciones de fuentes primarias únicas para el beneficio de los investigadores dentro y fuera del campus.
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PublicationForging future access to memory: Library contributions to a multi-disciplinary oral history project( 2023-03-16)Over the last six years, Puerto Rico has been shaken by a surge of stratified disasters-multiple overlapping catastrophes that affect the population in different but interrelated ways. Unrelenting economic depression provoked the establishment of a fiscal control board appointed under the PROMESA Act, which led to the imposition of harsh austerity measures. In September 2017, hurricanes Irma and María struck, causing extreme devastation. Furthermore, late 2019 saw the onset of a swarm of earthquakes which generated widespread displacement and structural damage, and 2020 brought the COVID-19 pandemic. As recently as September 2022, Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico, causing extreme flooding and damages to an already weakened infrastructure and leaving thousands without power or running water for weeks. Our university has not been spared, as it has been subject to severe budget cuts causing the elimination of faculty positions and deterioration of infrastructure and services, with student precarity on the rise. In response to this scenario of stratified disasters, the university library, in tandem with the English Department and Film Program, have initiated a collaborative project involving the creation of an oral history laboratory (OHL). The OHL, which will be housed in the library, will be a space dedicated to the collection, preservation, and broad dissemination of oral histories from around the Puerto Rican archipelago, particularly those that capture the experiences of community members as they have navigated the many challenges of these difficult times. The creation of the OHL shows how academic libraries, especially those serving communities facing precarious circumstances, can forge alliances and design creative projects to address local events and produce unique primary source collections. The digital oral history collections generated by the OHL are a significant contribution to the historical record, as they augment the visibility of narratives and perspectives coming from sectors of the population whose voices have been historically underrepresented or silenced. In the context of overarching problems like climate change and economic precarity, this work has a potent social justice component, as it highlights the experiences of those who, due to deeply entrenched social inequities and government neglect, are forced to endure the most severe aspects of the recent wave of calamities that has battered the Puerto Rican archipelago. The methodology used in developing the OHL is fundamental to the work, as the narrative transactions conducted through oral history interviews contribute an intersectional lens that encourages approaches to historical study that are more informed by personal human experience, thus cultivating empathy and solidarity. Additionally, oral history practice has the ability to resituate those disempowered by tragedy through the act of storytelling, where the narrator is positioned as the agential protagonist, an act more and more relevant in the face of Puerto Rico’s ever-growing list of cultural traumas. This session will present the groundbreaking methodological approach employed for the creation of the OHL and its digital humanities collections, and presents an example of how libraries can develop strategic multidisciplinary alliances for projects that promote social justice and equity in their home communities.