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. This cooperative collections agreement supports the Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Both Carolina and Duke acquire core materials from throughout Latin America to support undergraduate study. In addition, both work cooperatively to purchase research-level materials, special formats, and expensive items such as censuses, films, and large documentary microform collections. The following maps and lists illustrate their cooperative collecting.

• Duke University = DUKE BLUE
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill = CAROLINA BLUE
• Shared research level collection responsibilities* = PURPLE

(* Research level collections for Brazil are divided along subject lines. Please refer to the descriptions following the maps).

 

UNC-Chapel Hill is primarily responsible for collecting research materials from:

• Argentina
• Brazil (humanities and literature)
• Chile
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Haiti
• Paraguay
• Puerto Rico
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Duke University is primarily responsible for collecting research materials from:

• Bolivia
• Brazil (social sciences)
• Central America
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• English-speaking Caribbean
• Mexico
• Peru

Keep these differences in mind as you search either catalog for resources.