Verónica A. González is associate librarian in the Sound and Image Resources Department in the Green Library at Florida International University.
Ms. González holds a master of arts in library and information science from the University of South Florida and a bachelor of science in library science from the Metropolitan University in Santiago de Chile. She is currently enrolled in the Master of Arts in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at FIU. In 2004, she was hired by the FIU Department of Digital Collections. In 2006, she was honored with a Smithsonian scholarship to participate in a professional development program in Washington, D.C. This opportunity expanded her knowledge of the use of new technology and best practices related to digital audio and preservation.
Ms. González is in charge of one of the most extensive publicly available collections of Cuban music in the United States, the Díaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection (DAC), which she utilizes to support research and advance efforts in preservation, access, and digitization.
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