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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 - Division of 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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