Memory of the World - Latin America and the Caribbean
CIESPAL Medialab Collection, 1958-1999
The Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores de Comunicación para América Latina CIESPAL had as its foundational pillar the creation of a documentary centre in 1959 Since its creation CIESPAL has promoted universal democratic and permanent access to its extensive documentary collection made up of pieces donated by the most notable communication experts in the subregion and the Caribbean the socalled Latin American School of CommunicationThe collection gathered over half a century constitutes a vast repository of great importance in the field of Latin American communication and world communication studies In fact its importance caused CIESPAL to raise the need to create the Medialab in Quito protecting preserving and digitizing all parts of the collection This archival bibliographic and audiovisual initiative is comprised of four different sets of documents 3000 paper files 1800 photographs 1500 audio files and 3122 cassettes and a subcollection that aims to mainstream the gender perspective in the elements compiled from 1959 to the present making up the most relevant documentary heritage in communication studies of all Latin America and the Caribbean
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