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Other Collections of Latin American & Iberian Resources

 

Brown University (John Carter Brown Library)

The Library focuses on early printing and the Americas. Key materials document European discovery, exploration, travel, settlement, and colonization.
[Note: This is an independent library within the Brown University campus]

CRL Center for Research Libraries

CRL's mission is to foster and advance scholarly inquiry through cost-effective, cooperative programs that provide reliable access through traditional and electronic means to unique and unusual collections of library materials. Includes all appropriate formats, is international in scope, and comprehensive in disciplines, with an emphasis on worldwide newspapers, international doctoral dissertations, scholarly journals and textbooks.

Columbia University - Latin America & Iberian Studies

The collection is strong in coverage of Mexico, Brazil, and Southern Cone countries, with subject strengths in architecture, economic development, history, laws, literature, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

Cornell University Library

Major repository for newspapers, serials and regional publications, with emphasis on Andean countries. The website for the Latin American & Carribean Government Documents Project classifies and organizes electronic links to Latin American governmental information resources.

Duke University - Resources for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal

Collection strengths include cultural studies from most countries, Mexico in general and within the North American context, Brazilian and Argentine labor history, Andean countries, with particular emphasis on Peru.

Florida International University Latin American and Caribbean Information Center

Strengths include history, language and literature, economics, political science and international relations and 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.

Harvard University Libraries

One of the best overall collections with strengths in the social sciences and humanities for most countries, coverage from the late 18th century to the present. Also of mention is the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

Inter-American Development Bank (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo)

Provides statistical tables and maps of Latin American countries. The Felipe Herrera Library is a leading library in economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Library of Congress, Hispanic Division

The largest and most extensive coverage within the U.S.; includes serials, books, government documents, historical maps, and music. The Hispanic Reading Room serves as the primary access point for research relating to the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Iberian peninsula and the indigenous cultures of those areas. It also edits the Handbook of Latin American Studies.

New York University - Latin American Studies Resources

Bobst Library's Latin American and Caribbean studies collection supports the academic program of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). The Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media offers extensive collections of documentary videos and motion pictures.

The Newberry Library

Independent research library in Chicago whose subject areas include emphasis on Indians, languages, and Luso-Brazilian and Mexican history.

Princeton University - Research on Latin America, Spain, and Portugal

The Princeton Library has extensive holdings of manuscripts and correspondence of major 20th century writers, cultural figures and intellectuals; also large ephemera collections on political campaigns and protests of the 1980s. Strong printed collections for Cuba, Chile and Argentina.

Stanford University Libraries Latin American & Iberian Collections

Has broad coverage of Latin America, with comprehensive collecting of politics at The Hoover Institution; the Library also holds a major Chicano studies collection.

Tulane University - Latin American Library

A major repository for Central American and Mexican primary and secondary sources, including colonial documents, indigenous language collections, and photographs. The collection focuses on Mesoamerica and all other areas of Latin America - Brazil, Argentina and Peru in particular.

University of California, Berkeley - Collections in Latin American Studies

Principal strengths in the social sciences and humanities for Mexico, parts of Central America and Argentina; for 19th and early 20th century Mexico and Central America see the Bancroft Library. Also strong in Caribbean music materials.

UCLA Library Collections and Internet Resources in Latin American Studies

With Brazil, Argentina and Mexico being principal foci, this collections strengths are in government documents, serials, photographs along with monographs. Also home of the UCLA Latin American Center.

University of California, San Diego - Latin American Studies Collection

Focuses primarily on Mexico, Central America, and the Andean region, with strong collections on women's studies, ethnic studies, immigration, and elections for all countries in the region. Also produces the electronic publication Latin American election statistics: a guide to sources.

University of Florida - Latin American Collection

Traditionally focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, with extensive serial and government document holdings.

University of Georgia

Strengths are in literature, history, and anthropology with particular emphasis on Brazilian literature, Latin American cinema, and Inter- American relations. The Peabody Awards Collection holds over 1200 radio and TV entries on Latin American and US Latino topics.

University of Illinois - Latin American and Carribean Library

The Latin American and Caribbean Collection includes materials about the entire Latin American and Caribbean region and also about Hispanic American communities in the United States.

University of Kansas - Department for Spain, Portugal, and Latin America

In addition to the Library's strong holdings on Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Cuba, Haiti, and Mexico, there are some very interesting and unique special collections as well.

University of Miami Libraries

Holdings include the Caribbean Collection and the Cuban Heritage Collection. The mission of the CHC is to collect and preserve primary and secondary source materials pertaining to the history of Cuba from its discovery to the present.

University of New Mexico - Iberian and Latin American Resources and Services

Holdings are strongest for Mexico and Brazil, with strengths in Mexican popular graphic material and Latin American photography.

University of Notre Dame Libraries

The Kellogg/Kroc Information Center, located in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies, provides research materials on Latin American and International Affairs.

University of Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras

The Puerto Rican Collection is a research library that holds publications by Puerto Rican authors that relate to the island and its people.

University of Texas at Austin

The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection has exceptional holdings on Mexico, including printed materials from 16th to 20th centuries, manuscripts, government documents, maps. Also holds strong contemporary collections from the Rio de la Plata region (particularly Martin Fierro imprints), Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Central America.

University of Virginia Libraries

UVA's special collections include the Jorge Luis Borges Collection.

University of Wisconsin, Madison - Ibero-American Studies Collection

Strong Brazilian holdings along with 20th century imprints for most Latin American countries; extensive pre-1945 serial collection.

Vanderbilt University - Resources for Latin American Studies

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.

Yale University Library - Latin America Collection

Major strengths (especially for Mexico and Peru) for 19th century, including pamphlets; and manuscripts for the 16th -19th centuries which cover civil, social and religious history, especially for Peru and Mexico. The Economic Growth Center concentrates on statistical sources.

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