Under the leadership of historian Dr. Eduardo Torres Cuevas, Cuba’s National Library went from being a sleeping giant whose quality of service and accessibility of holdings were infamously bad to becoming the world-class institution it was meant to be when originally founded in the 1940s. Likewise, the leadership of Dean Judith Russell allowed UF to develop close-knit exchanges of labor and materials to create unique, digital holdings that could be viewed and used by all.
