Identity elements
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Haitian Student Organization collection
Date(s)
- 1998-2014 (Creation)
Extent
2 Boxes
Name of creator
Administrative history
Planet Kreyol was founded in 1993 at the University of Miami as the Haitian Student Organization and later renamed as Planet Kreyol. Their mission is to promote cultural awareness while servicing the community and preserving the ancestry of Haiti.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Haitian Student Organization collection consists of memorabilia kept in a time capsule, such as organizational records, event brochures, meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs, the Haitian national flag, and news clippings, buried on October 16, 2004 and opened on October 18, 2014. The collection was donated by the Planet Kreyol Haitian Student Organization of the University of Miami to the University Archives in January 2015.
The donor, Planet Kreyol, was founded in 1993 at the University of Miami as the Haitian Student Organization and later renamed as Planet Kreyol. Their mission is to promote cultural awareness while servicing the community and preserving the ancestry of Haiti.
System of arrangement
Box 1 contains 23 folders. Box 2 contains 1 poster of an event.
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
This collection is open for research.
Physical access
This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact the University Archivist, Nick Iwanicki, at ngi5@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to ngi5@miami.edu.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
The collection was donated by the Planet Kreyol Haitian Student Organization of the University of Miami to the University Archives in January 2015 via Beatrice Skokan, Manuscripts Librarian, Special Collections.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
UMiami Planet Kreyol's Facebook page
Information about related materials is available at https://www.facebook.com/UMPlanetKreyol/info?tab=page_info.
Related descriptions
Notes element
Specialized notes
Alternative identifier(s)
Description control element
Rules or conventions
Sources used
Archivist's note
Finding aid edited by Processing Archivist, Yvette Yurubi, 01-09-23.
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Planet Kreyol (Subject)