Latin American and Iberian Collections at Carolina

The Latin American and Iberian collections of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill support a wide range of research needs of Carolina's faculty and students. The collections are of research-level strength in most fields; the strongest holdings correspond to the traditional disciplines in Iberian and Latin American Studies: Spanish and Portuguese language and literature, Spanish American and Brazilian literature, Latin American history and political science. In addition, "Gray Literature" or non-commercially produced material originally intended for a private audience is collected. The collections are estimated at 500,000 volumes, predominantly in Spanish, Portuguese, and English with holdings also in French, Catalan, and Galician.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University maintain one of the oldest cooperative acquisitions programs in the country in the area of Latin American Studies. For detailed information on this cooperative effort please visit UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke Cooperative Collections in Latin American Studies.

UNC-Chapel Hill also holds important Latin American and Iberian Rare Books and Manuscripts in the Rare Book Collection and in the Manuscripts Department in Wilson Library.