Duke
University
Duke
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Latin American
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Since 1940,
the libraries of Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill have divided collecting responsibilities for the countries
of Latin America. Both institutions collect general materials from
all countries, but have divided responsibilities regarding comprehensive
coverage at the sub-national level and items such as government
documents and large microform sets according to individual countries.
Thus, Mexico, Central America, the Andean region (except Venezuela),
Brazilian social sciences and history, and the English and Dutch-speaking
Caribbean fall under the purview of Duke. Additional collection
strengths include cultural studies from most countries; Mexico within
the North American context; Brazilian and Argentine labor history;
and colonial Peru.
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Holly Ackerman
Emory
University
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Past collection
strengths at Emory University Libraries have included colonial Argentine
history, and Spanish American literature.
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Florida
International University
Latin American and Caribbean Center
Latin American and Caribbean Information Center
(FIU Libraries)
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Over 67,000
volumes, greatest strengths in history, language and literature,
economics, political science and international relations. Regionally
strongest on Cuba and Central America, with substantial holdings
on the Caribbean. Collections of note include: archival records
of Dr. Levi Marrero from the Archivo de Indias in Sevilla, Miguel
González-Pando's Cuban Living History Project video archives,
and over 2000 Cuban exile pamphlets written between 1960-1963.
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Gayle Williams
Tulane
University
Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Latin American Library
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The Tulane
Latin American collection numbers nearly 400,000 volumes relating
to the social sciences, literature and the arts. Since its inception
in 1924, the collection has focused on Mesoamerica, an area encompassing
Mexico from the Central Valley south, the trans-Caribbean region
and Central America. In the last forty years, the collection has
expanded coverage to all other areas of Latin America, Brazil, Argentina
and Peru in particular. The collection is a separate Latin American
Library with open stacks, important rare books and manuscript collections
and extensive holdings of broadsides, newspapers, maps, microfilms,
photographs, pamphlets, Indian pictorial manuscripts and rubbings
of Mayan sculpture.
Contact:
Hortensia Calvo
Sean Knowlton
Universidad
de Puerto Rico - Río Piedras
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Puertorriqueña
Biblioteca
Regional del Caribe y de Estudios Latinoamericanos
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The Puerto
Rican Collection is a research library which holds publications
by Puerto Rican authors, regardless of their place of publication,
and that relate to the island and its people. The library holdings
consist of books, rare books (published from the nineteenth century
to the beginnings of the twentieth), journals, newspapers, government
documents, theses, manuscripts, audiotapes, photographs, posters,
graphic art works, microfilms, post cards and other materials. Subject
matter ranges from philosophy to social sciences, as well as literature,
language, science, music, art and history.
Comprehensive
(f. 1946). Special emphasis on the Caribbean islands and Central
America, including the Yucatan Peninsula and the Guyanas. Unique
archival collections include documents of the first integration
organizations in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Commission and the
Caribbean Organization, as well as papers pertaining to UNICA (1969-1975)
and ACURIL (1969- ). Statistics: 90,515 books, periodicals and pamphlets,
1,433 maps, 57,800 items in other formats. Special collections include
gazettes from the Caribbean islands.
Contact:
Victor Torres
University
of Florida
Latin
American Collection
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The great depth
of book, journal, newspaper, manuscript, map and other library holdings
at the University of Florida relate to the Caribbean & Circum-Caribbean.
These materials include all subjects and themes, with deepest coverage
in the areas of the social sciences and humanities. There are also
important holdings in areas of life sciences, such as tropical agriculture
and conservation. UF's collections also have very good strength
in Brazilian, Andean and Southern Cone topics.
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Richard
Phillips
University
of Georgia
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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The University
of Georgia Libraries began acquiring Latin Americana more intensively
about 30 years ago. Strengths are in literature, history, and anthropology
with particular emphasis on Brazilian literature, Latin American
cinema, and Inter-American relations. The
Peabody Awards Media Archives contains
over 2000 radio and TV entries on Latin American and US Latino topics. At least
100 new entries are added yearly from the national and international nominations
Contact:
Laura Shendenhelm
University
of Miami
Cuban Heritage Collection
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The Cuban Heritage
Collection is one of the largest repositories of materials about
Cuba and Cuban-Americans outside the island nation; the collection
spans nearly 300 years and contains over 250,000 items, including
rare books, periodicals, manuscripts, illustrations, maps, posters,
personal papers, and photographs from the early colonial period
to the present.
Contact:
Lesbia Varona
Meiyolet Mendez
University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Latin American and Iberian Resources
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Contact: Teresa Chapa
University
of Texas at Austin
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Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
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Comprehensive
(f. 1926). Special emphasis on Mexico, Brazil, the Río de
la Plata countries, and U.S. Latino culture. Unique archival collections
for sixteenth-century Mexico, hacienda and mining studies (esp.
Mexico and Brazil), and Mexican American organizations and individuals.
Statistics: 800,000 books, periodicals, and pamphlets; 2,500 linear
feet of manuscripts; 93,500 photographs; 19,000 maps; 60,500 items
in other media. 14,000 volumes added annually.
Contact:
Adan
Benavides
Vanderbilt
University
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A collection
of long-standing strength, the geographic focus throughout the disciplines
in this interdisciplinary field has been on Brazil and Colombia,
with a secondary emphasis on Mexico and Venezuela. The collection
is particularly strong in nineteenth-century Colombian and Brazilian
history and mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology. A recent
area of development is in the field of Chilean history. The library
has a special strength in eighteenth and nineteenth-century travel
accounts of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Contact: Paula
Covington
