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Native on Sugar Factory, Barbados.
No full textPortrait, Sephia Tone, 3 ½” x 5½”The photo shows a female native worker at the sugar factory with a basket of cane thrash on her head. She wears an apron over her knee length dress. Her feet are bare. There is a brick building in the background, possibly to be the mill.
This is a divided back postcard.
Back of the Postcard
YP £12 (all handwritten in pencil
Birth Stories of Trinidad and Tobago: Stacey Thomas-Ayin
No full textStacey Thomas-Ayin is a surveying technician employed at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus., Trinidad and Tobago. She shares her feelings on first learning that she was expecting her first child. She remembers being scared and excited. She sought private medical care within the first six weeks of learning about her pregnancy. Eventually, she signed up at Mamatoto Birth Centre for childbirth classes. She shares her entire birth experience
Perceptions of New Roles for Libraries and Librarians in Big Data Adoption
No full textPoster presented at 53rd Association of Caribbean University Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) Conference held on 12–16 May, 2024 in Georgetown, Guyana.The emergence of Big Data creates an opportunity for traditional libraries to transform into massive data libraries. When large amounts of data are produced and harvested, massive stores of valuable information are also created. This data can then be tracked through the use of a combination of data tagging and metadata to catalogue the sets in their different formats.
Data analysis methods suited to advanced technologies are therefore invaluable for analyzing the extensive and diversified collections of linked data that will constitute the shared research resources in libraries of the future. The results of these methods can be used to improve library collection planning, visualization of data and provide quality search results. Consequently, they will also influence myriad areas of libraries’ frameworks, including human and literature resources, service modernization, technological adoptions, and the construction of structures.
With the growing momentum of the introduction of Big Data into libraries, the roles of librarians will also evolve. In addition to creating policies for data privacy and security, and training communities in data literacy and the values of research, they will also assume responsibility for managing research data to make it accessible and reusable by others, and for making decisions on how to expand open-source content, and how to select and purchase resources, including AI tools to facilitate large data processing and storage.
Among these ideas, the poster presentation will also identify areas for new research and an education paradigm to improve library operations
"The Spider", Barbados, British West Indies. - 30258
No full textLandscape, Colour, 3 ½” x 5½ “This image shows workers at the wharf pulling carts called “Spiders”, which have puncheons or what is commonly called a barrel attached. These puncheons are filled with molasses for shipping. There are other persons, dressed in business attire, standing amongst the workers. The historic Parliament Buildings are visible in the background.ees.
This is a divided back postcard.
Back of the Postcard
A05 £12 (Handwritten in Pencil
Birth Stories of Trinidad and Tobago: Sarah Mohammed
No full textSarah Mohammed is a first time mom from a small nuclear family and a large extended family. She recalls when she first learned that she was expecting and her decision to visit Mamatoto Resource and Birthing Centre
Market Street, Roseau, Dominica, B. W. I.
No full textLandscape; Black & white; 3 ½” x 5 ½”A busy scene in the town showing several pedestrians and the architectural features of the many buildings on the street. There are several [electrical?] poles on the right side of the street. This is a divided back postcard. Back of the card; €12 (Handwritten in pencil). Where the lime juices comes from. S.R.P.
Addressed to : J.S. Pasmiter Esq. Ruddington, Nottingham, England. Printed in ink PAQUEBOY. A red postage stamp is affixed to the card. Photograph by J.R.H. Bridgewater, Druggist, Roseau, Dominica. Printed in Germany. 12 49565
Birth Stories of Trinidad and Tobago: Shantel Stevens
No full textShantel Stevens is a stay-at-home mom from Union Hall, San Fernando. She has two children and she recalls how excited and scared she was to learn that she was expecting. She recalls craving a lot of chocolate during one of her pregnancies and her birth experience was good except that she was not allowed to have family in the delivery room as result of hospital policy
Birth Stories of Trinidad and Tobago: Amanda McIntrye
No full textAmanda MyIntyre is an experienced teacher, activist and writer. She talks about her first contact with the Birth Stories Project in 2015. She shares her views about the societal norms surrounding birthing and womanhood such as the way underage girls who become pregnant are treated. She speaks from a feminist and humanist perspective while touching on the treatment of LGBTIQ persons
