A grant from the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme funded the digitization of part of the holdings at the Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Frères de l'Instruction Chrétienne in Port-au-Prince, and this account follows that work through. Along the way the authors sketch how the library came to hold what it does — generations of collectors, students, alumni, and staff who kept the material intact — pick out some of what the nineteenth-century newspapers contain, and give space to the current Executive Director.

Collaboration is presented as central to the result: dLOC supplied further support while BHFIC staff carried out a substantial share of the scanning themselves. The closing pages turn on an uncomfortable point about the field. Projects meant to open up Haitian historical sources operate inside the same inequalities they set out to contest, paywalled access being one instance, and the authors ask how such initiatives might serve cultural and historical institutions better than they now do.