Puerto Rico's libraries, archives and museums road to recovery: A timeline of events after Hurricane Maria

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Hilda Teresa Ayala González is the Research Services Librarian at the Graduate Research and Innovation Center (GRIC) at the General Library of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM). She offers workshops in digital scholarship, scholarly communications, and research data and documentation management. She is also part of the UPRM Digital Repository Committee. She holds a Master Degree in Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada (May 2016), and another in Information Science from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (May 2011). Since 2016, she has been part of the board of the Red de Archivos de Puerto Rico (ArchiRED) and after Hurricane Maria, she has been involved in many initiatives to aid and train colleagues in collection care and emergency response.

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Ana I. Steidel holds a Master of Arts degree in Spanish Literature from Purdue University and is currently a student in the Master’s program in Library and Information Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.  She is interested in digital humanities and digital curation projects. In the Fall of 2018, as part of the requirements for Dr. Joel A. Blanco Rivera’s Digital Library course, she interviewed two librarians about the impact of Hurricane Maria at their respective institutions: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Library System and Archivo de Medios Audiovisuales.

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