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Latin American Studies Consortium of New England
Guide to Library Holdings
| Introduction | Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement |
The creation of the Latin American Studies Consortium of new England at the University of Connecticut, Brown University, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the Fall of 1987, as a national resource center funded under Title VI of the Higher Education Act, formalized the cooperation and resource sharing that had been going on among our programs for several years. In the Fall of 1997 Yale University joined the Consortium, further strengthening informal relationships as well as opportunities for cooperative ventures. With the support of Title VI funds, we have been able to employ a number of visiting faculty who have taught at the institutions each academic year. Faculty exchange among the consortium institutions has also taken place throughout the years.
The compilation of this guide to the Latin American library resources of the UConn-Brown-UMass-Yale Consortium (first published in 1989) introduces students and faculty to the breadth and strengths of each other's library holdings. Each university boasts a basic library collection that strongly supports undergraduate and graduate training in several disciplines within Latin American Studies. Taken together, the library collections of the Consortium offer phenomenal primary and secondary resources to students, faculty, and visiting scholars. This revised edition adds new categories of materials and information as well as completely updating the entire guide.
The information presented here does not do justice to the range or wealth of resources available at UConn, Brown, UMass, and Yale. Rather, it describes each collection briefly in terms of subject and geographic emphasis, and presents a selective inventory of microform resources, special collections, and, in some cases, journal collections and electronica. It also explains how to gain access to the materials (see the Cooperative Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement) and offers directions to each institution.
I have received much appreciated assistance in my efforts to
revise this guide from Mark Rios, a graduate assistant from
Latin American Studies at UConn, as well as from my colleagues at
the other Consortium libraries, Peter Stern at
UMass, Jenny Fierro-Wallace at Brown University and Cesar
Rodriguez at Yale University. I also want to particularly
thank my colleague at the University of Connecticut Library,
Nancy Martin, for her time and interest in creating the web
version of this guide.
________________________________________________________________________
Peter Allison is Principal Bibliographer/Collection Development Team Leader and Interim Latin American Library Liaison at Univeristy of Connecticut, Storrs.
Mark Rios is a candidate for his Master's degree in International Studies (Latin America ) at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Return to top Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement Latin American Studies Consortium of New England University of Massachusetts Library at Amherst University of Connecticut Library at Storrs Brown University Library Yale University Library July 1993 (Rev. August 1997) In support of the cooperative Latin American Studies program existing among the four participating institutions, each Library agrees to provide, without charge, Library borrowing and on-site use privileges to students and faculty of all four institutions who are actively engaged in Latin American study or research, and who are borrowers in good standing at the home institution.
All individuals taking advantage of this agreement will be subject to the rules and regulations (including fines) of the lending Library. Each Library will identify the library site(s) that will be available to participants, the procedure necessary for registering at the library, and the various circulation, borrowing, renewal, recall, return, billing, privilege suspension, card replacement, and on-site policies for the library.
The Latin American Studies Center at the home institution will guarantee the lending library full reimbursement of charges incurred by their students and faculty at the other three institutions in the event that the normal billing process fails to resolve such issues. The Head Circulation Librarian, or other designated individual, will be responsible for overseeing and implementing the cooperative borrowing agreement.
Potential participants will be screened by the Latin American Studies Center at the home institution. An application specifying the individual’s name, mailing address, university status, library borrowing status, and period for which use is requested, will serve as a letter of introduction and will be issued and signed by an authorized staff member of the Latin American Studies Center at the home institution. The individual will present this application at the Library of the lending institution at the place and time period specified on the application, in order to activate privileges. A separate application will be required for each library from which privileges are requested.
The normal period of privileges will be the current semester for undergraduates, the current academic year for graduate students, and the current plus subsequent academic year for faculty. A new letter of introduction from the Latin American Studies Center at the home institution will be required after privileges have expired.
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The Brown University Library, with a collection of three million volumes, is a composite of four separate facilities, of which two house collections that provide instructional and research support for Latin American Studies. These two are the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library which houses the circulating collections of materials in the humanities and social sciences. The Latin American collection includes over 18,000 volumes, 138 serials, 4 newspapers, and 500 microformatted materials. Subject strengths of the collection are history, language, and literature with country emphasis on Brazil. The John Hay Library houses non-circulating special collections. Information on the Library's holdings is available through the catalog.
Also located on campus, but administered separately, is the
John
Carter Brown Library, which contains one of the world's
outstanding collections in the field of Americana.
The collection contains over 50,000 items including books, maps,
and manuscripts describing the discovery, exploration,
settlement, and growth of the European colonies in the New World
from 1492-1835.
Memberships Boston Library
Consortium
Latin American
North East Libraries Consortium (LANE)
Selective
Inventory of Resources
- Current Journals
- Most current newspapers and periodicals in the social sciences and humanities are shelved in call number order in the Periodicals Reading Room of the Rockefeller Library. Bound volumes of periodicals are shelved in the stacks by call number. For further bibliographic details regarding titles listed below and information on additional serial titles, please consult the Brown catalog.
Americas v. 1-;
(1949-)/[microfilm] v. 29-; (1977-)
Atenea 1972-
Aztlan v. 9-;
(1978-)/[microfilm] v. 8, 10-18; (1977, 1979-1987)
Bohemia de Puerto Rico v.
66-72; (1974-1980) [latest six months only, v. 73-]
Boletin de la Biblioteca de Menedez y
Pelayo no. 15-; (1933-) [lacks: 51]
Boletin del Instituto de Investigaciones
Bibliograficas t. 1-; (1969-)
Brasil/Brazil v. 1-;
(1988-)
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies v.
26-43, 45-; (1949-66, 1968-)
Bulletin of Latin American
Research v. 8, no. 1-; (1989-)
Cadernos de Folclore n.s. 1-;
(1975-)
Caribbean Geography v. 1, no.
1; (May 1983-)
Caribbean Quarterly v. 1-;
(1949-)
Caribbean Studies v. 1-;
(1961-)
Casa de las Americas no. 1-;
(1960-) [lacks: no. 86-88, 93, 97-99, 101, 103-108]
Cepal Review no. 1-;
(1976-)
Colegios: The Newsletter on the History of
Ideas in Colonial Latin America [latest three years
only]
Colonial Latin American Review
v. 4-; (1995-)
Cuadernos Americanos v. 1-266;
(1987-)
Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos v.
1-; (1948-)
Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos
v. 5-; (Jan. 1975-) {lacks: v. 6; v. 7, no. 2; v. 9; v. 10, no.
2]
Dieciocho v. 1-; (1978-)
Discurso: Revista de Estudios
Iberoamericanos v. 10, no. 2-; (1933-)
Estadistica v. 1-;
(1943-)
Estudios Demograficos y Urbanos
v. 6-; (1991-)
Estudos Portugeses e Africanos
no. 1-; (Mar. 1983-)
Estudos n. 1-; (May
1984-)
Explicacion de Textos
Literarios v. 1-; (1972-)
Fem 17-; (1993-)
Filologia v. 10-; (1964-)
Granma [current month only] ;
microfilm, 1970-
Hispamerica v. 1-;
(1972-)
Hispanic American Historical
Review v. 1-; (1918-)/[microfilm] v. 57-;
(1977-)
Hispanic Journal v. 2, no. 1-;
(Fall 1980-)
Historia Mexicana v. 1-;
(1951-)
Ibero-Americana Pragenista v.
1-; (1967-)
Iberomania n.f. 4, 7-; (1976,
1978-)
Inti no. 1-; (Nov. 1974-)
Iris/Centre de Recherches sur les Literatures
Iberiques et Ibero-Americaines Modernes no. 1-;
(1981-)
Istoe [Isto e Senhor] no. 982-;
(July 11, 1988-)
Journal of Afro-Latin American Studies and
Literatures v. 1-; (Fall 1993/1994-)
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World
Affairs v. 12-; (1970-)/[microfilm] v. 19-;
(1977-)
Journal of Latin American Lore
v. 1-; (1975-)
Journal of Latin American
Studies v. 1-; (1969-)
La Gaceta: Publicacion del Fondo de Cultura
Economica 1964-
La Palabra y El Hombre n.s.
27-; (1978-)
Lateinamerika 1981-
Latin America Regional Reports
1983-
Latin America Weekly Report
(Jan. 4, 1990-)
Latin American Literary Review
v. 1-; (1972-)
Latin American Perspectives v.
1-; (1974-) [lacks v. 1, no. 1, 3; v. 2, no. 2; v. 4, no. 1, 2,
4; v. 6, no. 6]
Latin American Research Review
v. 1-; (1965-)/[microfilm] v. 12-; (1977-)
Latin American Theatre Review
v. 1-; (1967-)
Letras de Hoje 1967-
Letras no. 1-; (Mar.
1981-)
Luso-Brazilan Review v. 1-;
(1964-)
Manchete [latest three months
only retained]
Mexican Studies/Estudios
Mexicanos v. 1, no. 1-; (Winter 1985-)
Nawpa Pacha v. 1-;
(1963-)
Nexos v. 13-; (1990-)
Notas de Poblacion año
9-; (1981-)
Novos Estudos Cebrap no. 11-;
(1985-)
Nuevo Texto Critico v. 6-7,
11-; (1990/91-)
Portugese Studies v. 1-;
(1985-)
Proceso [latest three months
only]
Quaderni Ibero-Americani v. 7-;
(1948-)
Razon y Fe: Revista Hispano-Americana de
Cultura v. 1-; (1901-)
Remate de Males v. 3-; (1984-)
[lacks: 4-5]
Resgate 1990-
Resumenes Sobre Poblacion en America
Latina/Latin American Population Abstracts v. 8,
no. 1-; (1984-)
Review: Latin American Literature and
Arts v. 37-; (Jan.-June 1987-)
Revista Brasileira de Literatura
Comparada v. 1-; (1991-)
Revista Brasileira de Politica
Internacional v. 1-; (1958-)
Revista Caoniana v. 2, p. 1; 2.
ser., v. 1-; (1965, 1978-)
Revista de Historia de America
v. 1-; (1938-)
Revista de Indias v. 6-;
(1945-)
Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional Jose
Marti Ser. 2, t. 1, no. 3-; (May 1950-) [lacks
ser. 2, t. 4, no. 2-4; t. 5, no. 1-2, 4; t. 9, no. 2-4; ser. 3,
t. 6, no. 2; t. 13, no. 1, 4; t. 20, no. 1; t. 26, no. 3-4; t.
27, no. 1]
Revista Hispanica Moderna
año 1-; (Oct. 1934-)
Revista Iberoamericana v. 1-;
(1939-)
Revista Interamericana de Bibliografia/Review
of Inter-American Bibliography v. 1-;
(1951-)
Revista Mexicana de Sociologia
v. 15-; (1953-)
Siempre! Presencia de
Mexico [current six months only]
Studies in Latin American Popular
Culture v. 1-2, 4-; (1982-83, 1985-)
Tempo Brasileiro no. 1-12; 48-;
(1962-1966; 1977-) [lacks: no. 50]
Thesaurus: Boletin del Instituto Caro y
Cuervo t. 10-; (1954-)
Traducao & Comunicao v. 1-;
(Dec. 1981-) [lacks: v. 2]
Travessia no. 1-; (2nd
semester, 1980-)
La Torre: Revista General de la Universidad de
Puerto Rico v. 1-; (1953-)
Universidad de la Habana v. 1-;
(1934-)
Universidad de Mexico no. 409-;
(Feb. 1985-)
Veja no. 352-; (June 4, 1975-)
[lacks: 370, 460, 585, 593, 604-605, 607, 623, 626, 629-678, 702,
813, 872]
Vuelta no. 38-; (1980-)
Special Collections in the John Hay Library Six
special collections, housed in the John Hay Library, supplement
the general holdings on Latin America. These collections are
non-circulating. Registration at the Hay Reader's Services
Desk is required.
The Church Collection consists of the
personal library of Colonel George Earl Church, an engineer and
explorer in South America. Acquired in 1912, it contains
3,500 volumes of economic, historical, geographic, and
descriptive studies of South America. Perhaps the
most important item in the collection is the 18th century
manuscript history of Potosi, a Bolivian mining town, once the
largest city in the New World. The greatest concentration
of the collection, however, is late 18th and 19th century
works on politics, history, and science. Materials on
anthropology and Native American languages are also well
represented.
The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays numbers over 200,000 volumes in all. This collection contains many titles by and about Latin American poets and playwrights and their works. More recent collecting, however, has shifted emphasis to titles by and about Hispanic-Americans.
The John Hay Manuscript Collection contains papers, books, manuscripts related to United States political and economic involvement in Latin America during John Hay's tenure as Secretary of State.
The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection contains works on the military history of each country in Latin America. The printed material is supplemented by many original watercolors depicting military events and regimented costume.
The Incunabula Collection is part of the Annmary Brown
Memorial Collection and contains two works published by Juan
Pablos, the first printer in the New World. These works
are Gerson, Jeannes, 1363-1429, Tripartito ... de Doctrina Christiana,
[Tenuchtitlan, 1554] and Tenuxtitla, Mexico. Archdiocese.
Constituciones del Arcobispado ...,
[Mexico, 1556].
Microform Collections Blacks in Brazil. 54 items (Princeton
University Latin American Pamphlet Collection)
Black Press of Brazil = A Imprena negra no
Brasil. 31 titles spanning 1916-1969 filmed in Sao
Paulo (Princeton University Latin American Pamphlet
Collection).
Brazil's Popular Groups. A
collection of materials issued by socio-political, religious,
labor, and minority grass-roots organizations. Section on
Blacks, Political Parties, Urban Issues, Children, and Women's
Issues. Own sets for: 1966-1986;
1987-1989; Suppl. 2, 1990-1992; Suppl. 3, 1993;
Suppl. 4, 1994.
Latin American Pamphlets from the Yale
University Library. Miscellaneous.
Brazil. Fiche 1-127.
Latin American Pamphlets from the Yale
University Library. Miscellaneous.
Cuba. Fiche 1-46.
Latin America, Special Studies
Series, 1962-1980; 1980-1982;
1982-1985; 1985-1988; 1989-1991.
Medina's Biblioteca
Hispano-Americana. Microfilm made in 1941 of the
original Medina Collection located in the Biblioteca Nacional de
Santiago de Chile. Based on Medina's bibliography, the
collection is a history of the Spanish-speaking peoples of the
western hemisphere. The collection includes approximately
8,000 titles. An index is available. Film collection
is located in both the Rockefeller Library and the John Hay
Library.
Racial Groups in Brazil.
Pamphlets and periodicals. (Princeton University Latin American
Pamphlet Collection).
U. S. Foreign Broadcast Information
Service. (FBIS). Daily Report, Latin America
and Western Europe.
U. S. State Department. Confidential
Central Files. Internal Affairs, Cuba,
1955-1959.
Policies and
Procedures Access to Materials
Because of the demands placed on library resources, access to and
use of the collections in the Rockefeller Library is generally
restricted to individuals affiliated with Brown University.
However, researchers and scholars from outside the University may
obtain reading or borrowing privileges under special guidelines.
Contact the Circulation Office at (401) 863-2165, from 9:00 a.m.
- 5:00 p.m. weekdays for details. Faculty and students of
the Latin American Studies consortium receive reading and
borrowing privileges through the Consortium Reciprocal Borrowing
Agreement.
Rockefeller Library Hours or call (401) 863-2165.
The John Hay Library is open Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. Call for information on recess hours (401)
863-3723.
For hours at the John Carter Brown library call (401)
863-2725.
Public Services
Reference
The Reference Desk in the Rockefeller Library is located on Level
1 straight ahead from the library entrance. Librarians are on
duty the majority of Library hours. More specialized
reference collections and services are offered in the John Hay
Library and the John Carter Brown Library.
Photocopies
Self service photocopy machines are located in the Copy Center on
Level B and in the Reserve Book Room on level 2 of the
Rockefeller Library.
Electronic Resources
For information on current electronic and Internet resources
contact the Reference Desk at (401)-863-2167 or visit the
Library's
Web page.
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Connecticut Libraries
The core collection of Latin American materials in the Homer
Babbidge Library at the University of Connecticut supports
undergraduate and graduate teaching and research at the
University. It contains approximately 100,000 volumes
covering all countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and
grows by an estimated 2500 volumes per year. Materials are
collected primarily in literature, history, and the social
sciences, with particular emphasis on Mexico, Argentina, Chile,
the Andean region, and the Spanish speaking Caribbean.
Specialized collections for Puerto Rico, Chile, and Mexico as
well as a Latin American Newspapers collection strongest for
Bolivia are housed in the Archives & Special Collections
Department of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. The
Map and Geographic
Information Center (MAGIC) actively collects flat maps
for many countries in Latin America. Collecting has been
continuous since the late 1940s and became an official part of
the Library's acquisitions program in 1966 with the establishment
of Latin American studies on campus.
The Latin American materials are not housed together but are
integrated into the Library collections by subject classification
number. Access to information on virtually all the
Library's holdings for Latin American Studies (including
specialized collections, microform sets, maps, etc.) is available
through the Library's catalog, HOMER, or Telnet:
HOMER tn3270://uconnvm.uconn.edu or through any UConn Mainframe
account (choose "B" from the VTAM menu). Audio and video
tapes are housed in the Culpeper Media
Library. A separate annotated listing of videotapes to support Latin
American Studies is available from the Library or through the
Library's Resources for Latin
American Studies page. The University of Connecticut is
a depository library for U.S. federal government documents.
Most U.S. government documents are shelved by SUDOC number on
Level 2 or in the microfiche collection on Level 1. Most
paper documents circulate. Documents for foreign countries
and of international organizations are selectively available in
paper in the Reference and circulating collections as well as
more extensively available through the IIS microfiche
collection. For access information for the IIS microfiche
see the listing in the microform section for UConn.
Memberships ARL Latin Americanists
Research Pilot Project
A table of contents current awareness database for serials
in the project can be accessed at UT-LANIC. Inter-library
loan document delivery can be requested directly from the
database.
Latin
American Microform Project (LAMP)
Latin American
North East Libraries Consortium (LANE)
Selective Inventory of
Resources Journals For further
bibliographic details regarding the titles on this list, please
consult Homer,
the
UConn catalog.
Newspapers The Library does not subscribe
to any daily newspapers from Latin America. However,
virtually every country in Latin America now has at least one
daily newspaper available full-text on the Internet. Many
of these newspapers are accessible at a number of web sites
including UT-LANIC
and Zona
Latina.
Electronic Resources The Library
continually expands and improves its electronic database
offerings. Contact the Reference Desk at (860)-486-2513 or
check the Library Web home page. The
following is a selective listing of electronic databases that are
available as of Spring 1999 at UConn:
Hispanic American Periodicals
Index (HAPI)
Handbook of Latin American Studies
(HLAS)
Latin American Data Base (LADB)
(full-text)
Latin American News
Info Latino America
South American Business
Information
Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis)
(full-text)
America: History and Life
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
ECONLIT
EIU: Country Analysis
Eventline
FirstSearch (including
WorldCat)
Historical Abstracts
IAC InfoTrak Search Bank
(full-text)
JREF (includes such indexes as
Social Science Index, Education Index,
etc.)
MLA Bibliography
National Trade Databank
Public Affairs Information Service
(PAIS)
Public Opinion Poll
POPLINE
SIRS Reseacher
Sociological Abstracts (formerly known as
Sociofile)
UnCover
UnCover Reveal
World News Connection (FBIS full-text
)
WorldCat
Several of these databases are networked distributed through
the Internet (some are available to UConn students and faculty
only).
Special Collections The Hispanic History and Culture
Collections listed below are serviced by the Archives & Special Collections
Department and housed in the Thomas J.
Dodd Research Center located just south of the Main
Library. Current hours are available from the Dodd Center web page, or
call (860)-486-2524. To use materials registration is
required at the Dodd Reader's Services Desk.
The Chile Collection. The approximately
2000 volumes of the collection reflect the history and politics
of Chile from the sixteenth century through 1940 with particular
strength in the years 1810-1940. The nucleus of the
collection was formed by Jose Promis of Santiago. Subjects
include the boundary disputes of Chile, particularly the
Tacna-Arica question, as well as church history with a
concentration on the Jesuits in Chile. The history of
Chilean politics is well represented by both comprehensive
political overviews and more specific materials such as the
presidential messages to Congress of presidents of the
period. Parts of the collection focus on economic and
agrarian reform, the copper and nitrate industries, and the
overall national economy. Latin American
Newspapers. This collection consists of over
3000 titles from virtually all countries of Latin America and the
Caribbean. Most of the newspapers date from the 19th
century with the collection being strongest for Bolivian
titles. Visit the web exhibition "Paseo por el Periodismo" for
highlights of this collection. The Medina
Collection consists of over 300 volumes of the
bibliographical and historical works of the Chilean scholar and
bibliographer Jose Toribio Medina (1852-1930) as well as
secondary works about him. Medina documented the history of the
products of the press of a large number of Latin American
countries. He published biographical dictionaries with thousands
of entries as well as multi-volumes bibliographies. He also
chronicled the history of the Inquisition in Latin America.
Virtually all of his works in the collection are first editions;
a number of them are rare.
Mexico is represented by approximately 300
Mexican
broadsides and manuscripts consisting mainly of governmental
decrees, proclamations and circulars from the first half of the
nineteenth century. This collection includes documents on
such subjects as the economy, farming, elections, and military
and ecclesiastical communications. Also included is a
manuscript hacienda account book of the Marquesa de Apartado from
1850. The department also has a number of monographs and
pamphlets on Mexican history, politics, and description and
travel, almost all 19th century imprints. There is also a
small collection of Mexican codices in facsimile which record the
history of early Indian civilizations in Mexico.
The Puerto Rican Collection numbers more than
2000 volumes, containing books, pamphlets, government documents,
and some periodicals on the social, economic, political, and
literary history of Puerto Rico during the late 19th and early
20th centuries. While the earlier materials deal more with
the socio-historical evolution of Puerto Rico, the later items
focus on the island's social and economic conditions.
Spanish
Periodicals and Newspapers. Collected by the
Duque de T'Serclaes, the collection spans three centuries.
The bulk of the material covers the years 1800-1840, providing a
wealth of opportunities for research on almost all aspects of
life in the Spanish colonies including the Wars of Independence
for Latin America as viewed in the Spanish press. The
periodicals and newspapers are abundant with information about
all aspects of Spanish society including politics and government,
history, literature, science, the arts, religion, the economy,
and trade. Visit the web exhibition "Paseo por el Periodismo" for
highlights of this collection.
Another related collection housed in the Dodd Center which offers
research opportunities for Latin American Studies is the
Alternative Press Collection (APC). The
APC consists of monographs, journals, and ephemeral materials,
dating from the late 1960s to the present. It includes
coverage of contemporary political, social, and economic issues
in Latin America, particularly discussion of those issues by
members of activist groups in the United States.
Microform
Serials and Collections A complete list of microform
holdings including locations and finding aid information.
Policies and
Procedures General
The Storrs campus libraries consists of the Homer
Babbidge Library, which is the main library, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, ho
Archives & Special Collections
Department, the Music Library,
and the Pharmacy Library.
The Babbidge Library is located in the center of campus on
Farifield Road. Present holdings include over 2.5 million
books, periodicals, government documents, audio-visual materials,
and 2 million microform units.
The Babbidge Library houses the bulk of the Latin American
collection. The Circulation Department, Reference
Department, access to most electronic resources, and the
microtext collection are located on Level 1. The office of
the Interim Latin American Librarian is also located on B Level
(Phone: 860-486-2520 or e-mail Peter Allision).
Journals are alphabetically arranged by title and shelved on the
Level 3.
Access to materials
The Libraries at the University of Connecticut are open to the
public for reading and consultation.
Borrowing privileges are extended
to students, faculty, and staff upon presentation of a valid
University ID. Connecticut residents outside the University
can become Community
Borrowers. Faculty and students of the Latin
American Studies consortium receive borrowing privileges
according to the Consortium
Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement.
Babbidge Library
hours Call (860) 486-4636 for information about
changes in hours.
Bibliographic access to the materials in the University of
Connecticut Libraries is available through the Library's
catalog, HOMER, or Telnet:
HOMER tn3270://uconnvm.uconn.edu or through any UConn Mainframe
account (choose "B" from the VTAM menu).
Public Services
Reference
Staff are on duty on the Information Desk whenever the building
is open for service. Reference librarians are on duty at
the Reference Desk all hours except 8:00-9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.
- midnight. Call the Reference Desk at (860) 486-2513, or
visit "askHomer?" from
the Library website.
Electronic
Databases
Most electronic databases (both indexes and full-text) are
accessible through a variety of user interfaces on Level 1.
The Library also provides 20 workstations offering public access
to the World Wide Web. Many of the electronic databases
provided by the University of Connecticut are also accessible
through the Internet at your home or office workstation.
For details consult "Technical
Assistance", or call (860) 486-2513.
Photocopying
There are self-service copiers on Level A, Level 1, and
Level 3. Copy card machines are located on all of these
levels except Levels A and B. Change is available at the
Copy Center Desk on Level 3 now located in the Culpeper Media Library.
Microform Readers
Microform Reader-Printers are available on Level 1 next to the
Microtext collections. Prints may be made with a copy card
that can be purchased at any of the copy machine locations listed
above.
Electronic Course Reserve
Working with a variety of faculty, the Library has started to
provide reserve materials over the campus network.
Additional electronic course reserve materials can be accessed
through the University's Virtual
Classroom. Connect to these sites to verify if
your class reserve materials are available electronically.
Interlibrary Loan
The Library will supply materials from its collection through
interlibrary loan. Inquire at your campus library for
information.
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The W.E.B. Du Bois
Library University of
Massachusetts/Amherst
The Latin American Collection of the University of
Massachusetts/Amherst Library numbers an estimated 170,000
volumes, with an additional 37,500 units in microform and around
1,000 serials currently received. In the years when the
University has average budgets it grows at a rate of from 3,000
to 3,500 volumes a year. Approximately 80% of the
collection is in Spanish or Portuguese. The Collection
dates back about thirty-five years, with an organized, committed
acquisitions program beginning about 1965 when the University's
Latin American Studies Program was established.
The Latin American holdings are not housed as a separate
collection, but are integrated in the Library according to where
they fall in the classification system. Some holdings,
including the maps, are in the branch libraries.
Documentary films are in the Audio Visual Department (A guide,
Five College Latin American Films and Videos, is available from
the Library). There is no separate catalog or index to the
Latin American Collection as a whole. Information on the
Library's holdings is available through the catalog.
Within the framework of a "Profile," the Library collects
across the board for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
selectively for the Natural Sciences. It has been the
policy since 1965 to emphasize no one subject or geographical
area, but to collect for all subjects and areas. The
difficulties agents have in acquiring publications in some
locations, the research interests of faculty members, the kinds
of courses offered, and other factors have caused the collections
for some countries to develop more rapidly than those for
others. The strongest portion is that for Argentina, which
was already well established at the time the Latin American
Studies Program was formally launched. Other important
parts of the collection are those for Mexico, Peru, and
Colombia. Brazil also shows an emerging strength. The
subjects best represented in the collection are Literature,
History, Anthropology, Politics and Government, Economics,
Demography and Geography. There is also a rapidly growing
body of material on Latin American women. The Library has a
considerable number of Latin American newspapers on microfilm, an
expanding collection of Latin American government documents, and
an extensive, up-to-date Reference collection.
Memberships Consortia to which the
University Library belongs which are important for Latin American
Studies include:
Five Colleges,
Inc.
The University's students and faculty may use the libraries of
the other four colleges as readily as they use their own.
There is an catalog
of all the Five College library holdings which may be accessed
off campus via the Internet.
The University of Massachusetts Library has the largest
holdings of Latin American material in the area, but the colleges
have good basic collections and some significant special groups
of publications. Smith College, for example, is strong for
Brazilian Literature, Hampshire College for publications of the
English-speaking Caribbean and for films. Mount Holyoke has
many Latin American novels of the earlier twentieth century, and
Amherst has a useful collection of Venezuelan material.
Center
for Research Libraries (CRL)
Latin
American Microform Project (LAMP)
Latin American
North East Libraries Consortium (LANE)
Boston
Library Consortium
Selective
Inventory of Resources Journals The
University receives about 580 Latin American Journals currently
(excluding a number of serial
documents, which are handled separately). The UMass current
journals are not listed here. Please consult the UMass
catalog
for specific titles.
Over the years the University has acquired substantial holdings
of Latin American serials no longer published, some of these in
microform. A few examples: film of paper editions of
many of the 54 journals -- among the most important published in
Latin American in the century 1843-1935 -- indexed by Sturgis
Leavitt in Revistas Hispanoamericanas, Indice
Bibliográfico, 1843-1935 (Santiago, Chile 1960),
the 37 titles issued to date in the series of reprints of Mexican
literary journals of the first part of the twentieth century,
Revistas Literarias Mexicanas
Modernas (made available by the Fondo de Cultura
Economica, Mexico), and film of a number of Cuban journals
produced by the Kraus Thompson Organization in the
mid-1970's.
Special Collections The University of
Massachusetts' Special
Collection and Archives collection houses an assortment of
materials including manuscripts, atlases, maps, 1st editions, and
rare volumes of literature of Latin America. Included in
the manuscript collections are recently acquired papers of Robert
Potash pertaining to the military and political movements of
Argentina from the 1940s to the 1970s. Only a portion of
the Robert Potash papers are currently available for viewing,
including photocopies of government publications, newspaper
clippings, and articles from Argentina from the 1940s to the
1970s.
Newspapers The Library has current paper
subscriptions to nine (9) Latin American newspapers and current
microfilm subscriptions to an additional six. The
collection also has backfiles on microfilm of a number of
newspapers not currently received.
Current newspapers in paper edition are on the newspaper shelves
in the Current Periodical Room (2nd Floor). Backfiles on
film are in the Microforms Room (Main Floor).
Almost no Latin American newspapers are indexed. In order
to find articles in them, one must identify the dates when the
events occurred through the New York Times or other English
language index, or through one or another summary of news
stories.
ARGENTINA
La Nación. Weekly
international ed. Paper. The weekly literary
supplement is also received in paper. Current issues only.
(Current)
Non-Current:
Clarín. Film Sept. 1962
- Dec. 1981. (Microfilm A 907)
La Época. Film
1915-1930. (Microfilm A 259)
El Independiente. 1815-1816; Los
Amigos de la patria y la juventud, 1815-1816 (Microfilm
5021)
La Nación (daily) Film
1957-88 [1991] (Microfilm A 90)
Periódicos de la época de la
Revolución de Mayo: El Grito del sud,
1812-1813;
La Prensa. Film 1869 to
1993. (Microfilm A2)
Vanguardia. Film
1894-1987. (Microfilm A 224)
BARBADOS
Times. Film 1881-Sept.
1895. (Microfilm A 859) (Non-Current)
BRAZIL
Non-Current:
O Estado de Sao Paulo. Film
1875-[1956]-[1973-1974]-[1976]-1989. (Microfilm A
301)
Correio de Manha. Film
1962-[1966]-1974. (Microfilm A 130)
Opiniao (Rio). Film Oct. 23,
1972-April 4, 1977. (Microfilm A 825)
Rio News. Film 1879-1900.
(Microfilm A 864). Publication suspended Dec. 6, 1893-Jan. 1,
1895.
CHILE
El Mercurio. Film
1956-[1959]-[1983]-April 1988. (Microfilm A 145)
(Non-Current)
COLOMBIA
El Tiempo. Film 1930-1960, 1971
to the present. (Microfilm A 406).
Suspended publication Aug. 1954-May 1957. (Current)
Non-Current:
Alternativa. Bogota, 1974-Mar.
27, 1980. (Microfilm A 826)
Nueva frontera.
1974-[1981]-[1989]-[1991]. (AP 63 N76 Folio)
COSTA RICA
Rumbo (San Jose, Costa Rica).
Paper. Sept. 14, 1987 to the present [contains gaps].
(AP 63 R963 Per) (Current)
CUBA
Granma. Weekly edition in
English. Paper. Current issues only. Film 1966
to the present. Filmed incomplete. (Microfilm A
204). (Note: Film is called Granma
Weekly Review). (Current)
Non-Current:
Noticias de hoy. Film 1959-Oct.
1965 (Microfilm A 919). Merged with Revolución to form Granma.
Revolución. Film
1959-Oct. 3, 1965. (Microfilm A 920)
Verde Olivio. Film 1960-1987.
(Microfilm A 656)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Caribe. Paper. Current
issues only. (Current)
Caribe. Film
1948-[1965]-1987. (Microfilm A 150)
(Non-Current)
HAITI
Le Petit samedi soir. Film
1972-1980. (Microfilm A 846) (Non-Current)
MEXICO
Excelsior. Film.
1918-[1920]-[1922]-[1971]-[1979]-1985, 1990 to the present.
Uno más uno. Paper
edition. Current issues only.
Non-Current:
Águila mexicana; periódico
cuatidiano político y literario. Film
1823-1828. (Microfilm A 227)
El Cosmopólita. Film
Dec. 1835-July 1843. (Microfilm A 226). Some issues
lacking.
El Observador de la República
Mexicana. Film. June 6, 1827-Jan. 2, 1828;
Ser. 2, March 3-Oct. 27, 1830 (some issues lacking).
El Siglo Diez y Nueve.
Film. Oct. 8, 1841-Dec. 1896. (Microfilm A 325).
Suspended publication Jan. 16-Mar. 1, 1843; Jan. 1, 1846, May 30,
1846, Sept. 13-30, 1856; Aug. 1, 1858-Jan. 14, 1861; May 15,
1863-July 14, 1867.
El Sol. Film. Dec. 5,
1821-May 22, 1822; June 15, 1824-March 1830. (Microfilm A
221)
Suspended publication Dec. 2, 1828-June 30, 1829. Some
issues lacking.
El Telégrafo; periódico
oficial del gobierno de los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos.
Film. Jan 11, 1833-Feb. 9, 1835. (Microfilm A
22).
La Lima. (Earlier title:
La Lima de vulcano). Film. Oct. 19, 1833-
Dec. 1, 1837. (Microfilm A 278). Some issues lacking.
Periodísmo insurgente.
Mexico: PRI, 1976. 3 vols. (F 1232 P46+).
Photo reprint edition consisting of facsimiles of ten Mexican
revolutionary newspapers published in the period 1810-1823.
Volume 1: contains El despertador
americano, Ilustrador nacional, Ilustrador americano, Seminario
patriótico-americano, Gazeta del gobierno americano en el
departamento del norte, Clamores de la fidelidad americana contra
la opresión, Impresos y manifesto de Don José
Matias Quintana.
Volume 2: contains Correo americano del
sur and Sud; continuación del Despertador de
Michoacan.
Volume 3: contains La Abispa de
Chilpancingo.
NICARAGUA
La Barricada.
(daily). Film. 1979 to1991-. (filmed
incomplete.) (Microfilm A
841).
(Current).
La Barricada Internacional.
English language. Film. 1987, [1989]-[1991]. Microfilm A
1021) This is not a translation of the newspaper above; it
is a separate publication.
PERU
El Comercio. Film.
1925-1945, 1974 to the present. (Microfilm A 737)
(Current).
Lima Times. 1977 to the present. (AP 6 L5 Per).
Paper. Supersedes Peruvian Times. Back volumes
in stacks. (contains gaps). (Current)
Andean Air Mail and Peruvian
Times. Film. Dec. 24, 1940-Sept. 28, 1973.
(Microfilm A 1047) (Non-Current)
PUERTO RICO
El Nuevo Día.
Paper. Current issues only. (Current)
EL SALVADOR
El Diario de hoy. Film.
1936-1955. (Microfilm A 151) (Non-Current)
URUGUAY
La Marcha. Film. 1-36,
1939-1974. (Microfilm A 699) (Non-Current)
VENEZUELA
El Nacional. Film.
1966-[1969]-[1972-June 1980]. (Microfilm A 156)
(Non-Current)
Government Documents The University of
Massachusetts Library is a depository library. Most U.S.
government documents are shelved by Superintendent of Documents
number in the Government Documents Department on the sixth level
of the library. (There is a catalog of holdings on that
level.) Most items circulate. The Government
Documents Department also receives the United Nations
documents. Other UN documents are shelved in the Documents
collection, but most of the publications of the Economic
Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) are catalogued for the
general collection.
Microform Collections
Among the large number of U.S. government document related to
Latin America are several important groups in microform.
Joint Publications Research Service
(JPRS) (Located in Government Documents Dept.)
1957 to the present with indexes.
U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information
Service. (FBIS)
Daily Report, Latin America. (Located in Government
Documents Dept.) Microfiche: 1974 to the present (PR
Ex7.10) Index 1978-[1983] to the present.
U.S. National Archives Microfilm
Publications (Located in the Microforms Room)
The University Library has extensive holdings of the microfilm of
diplomatic and consular dispatches to the State Department from
officers in Latin America from the earliest days of the
Republic. Holdings are largely complete through 1929. Later
years have been acquired as the film was produced and funds
became available. Interested persons may acquire a complete
list of the Library's holdings from the Latin American
Librarian.
Other U.S. Documents in Microform
(All microfilm in the Microforms Room; paper guides in the
Reference Collection).
CIA Research Reports: Latin
America. 1946-1976 (Microfilm 6539; Guide Ref. Z
1601 C51982)
John F. Kennedy National Security
Files. Latin American National Security Files,
1961-1962 (Microfilm 8446; Guide Ref Z1249.M5 G97
1987)
Latin America: Special
Studies
1962-80 (Microfilm 6537; Guide Ref. Z 1601 L3)
1980-82 (Microfilm 6538; Guide, Ref. Z 1601 L31)
Lyndon B. Johnson National Security
Files. Latin America 1963-1969. (Microfilm
8447; Guide Ref Z1249.M5 G975 1972)
OSS/State Department Intelligence and Research
Reports: Part 14: Latin America
1941-1961 (Microfilm 6536; Guide, Ref. Z 1601 G81)
U.S. Military Intelligence
Reports.
Argentina 1918-41 (Microfilm 6559 ; Guide, Ref. Z 1623
U3)
Mexico 1919-41 (Microfilm 6558 ; Guide, Ref. Z 1426.5
U5)
U.S Department of State.
Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post
Records:
Cuba
1938-1945
(Microfilm 6543; Guide, Ref. Z 1511 C6)
El Salvador 1930-45 (Microfilm 6541;
Guide, Ref. Z 1491 C6)
Nicaragua 1930-45 (Microfilm
6540; Guide, Ref. Z 1481 C6)
Honduras 1930-45
(Microfilm 6542; Guide, Ref. Z 1471 C6)
Foreign & International
Documents Documents of foreign countries and of
international organizations other than the UN are not shelved
with the Documents Collection, but are fully cataloged and
shelved in the stacks or in the Microforms Room. The
Library receives the Official
Documents and other publications of the Organization of
American States and has complete holdings on microfiche of the
Congresses and Conferences held by the old Pan American
Union.
Organization of American States.
Documentos officiales.
Indice y lista general. 1960 the
present. Paper. (Ref. F 1402 A169) Issued in 2
parts: a list of documents, and a subject index. The
First paper appears promptly; the second is often delayed --
sometimes for several years.
Official Records.
1978 to the present. Paper. The various series are
catalogued separately.
1961-1966. Microcards. (Microcard 7)
1967 to the present. Microfiche. (Microfiche
63)
The microfiche is kept together by the year.
Pan American Union.
Conferences and Organizations
series. No. 1-60, 1948-1959. (Microfiche
66)
Congress and Conference series.
No. 1-69, 1929-1950. (Microfiche 65)
The Library also receives many of the publications of the OAS
specialized agencies (Pan American Health Organization, Pan
American Institute of Geography and History, Inter-American
Indian Institute, etc.) and of related but unaffiliated agencies
(Inter-American Development Bank, for example).
The collecting policy for Latin American government documents
calls for acquiring the most significant publications of the
national governments, including those of national autonomous
entities (Central Banks, for example). State and municipal
documents are excluded unless the Library asks for them on an
individual basis. Parliamentary debates are acquired from
Argentina. The Library receives the legal codes of
Argentina and to some extent those of Brazil, Colombia and
Mexico. And agents in all countries are asked to supply
copies of laws that have to do with labor, health, education,
welfare, women, children, native populations and agrarian
reform. The Library also collects works that deal with
constitutional and legal issues.
Microform sets of Latin American Government documents that
supplement for incomplete paper sets have been acquired.
The following are housed in the Microforms Room.
Annual Reports of the World's Central
Banks.
Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey. 1986 to the
present. Microfiche 621. Ongoing project.
Reports for many, but not all, banks of Latin America and the
Caribbean are included.
International Population
Censuses. Latin America and the
Caribbean. New Haven: Research Publications.
Microfilm. Ask at Reference Desk for Major Five College Microforms Index
(p.112-113 for Microfilm numbers). Library has Segment I
(Censuses 1945-1967) - Guide Ref. Z 7164 D3 R47 1979.
Segment II (Censuses Pre-1945) - Guide Ref. Z 7164 D3
R468 v. 1 & 2. The library did not purchase Segment
III: Censuses Post-1967. It owns many of these in
paper editions.
Latin American and Caribbean Official
Statistical Serials, 1821-1970. Alexandria, VA:
Chadwyck-Healey. Microfiche. Check catalog for
individual statistical publications. Somewhat
scattered.
National Economic Development
Plans. Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation
Company.
Guide at Ref. Desk. HC 10 I5. Microfiche 1. Ongoing
project. 355 Latin American and Caribbean development plans are
available in this collection as of the end of 1989. These begin
with the earliest plans and cover up to the 1980s
Current National Statistical Compendiums on
Microfiche. Congressional Information Service, Inc.
Groups 1-9, 1970-1988. Microfiche 622. (Standing order canceled
at the end of 1989). Many, but not all, national
statistical compendiums for Latin America and the Caribbean are
included.
Other Microform Collections In addition
to the microfrom collections for government documents listed
above, the UMass Library holds the following microform
collections.
Spain. Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
El virreinato de Nueva España y
Perú durante los siglos XVI y XVII.
Prof. Lewis Hanke selected and indexed many thousands of
documents stored in the Archive of the Indies in Seville having
to do with viceregal administration in the colonies during the
16th and 17th centuries, and the Centro Nacional de Microfilm (in
Madrid) filmed many of these. The University of
Massachusetts Library has a set of this film.
Hanke, Lewis. Guía de las fuentes
en el Archivo General de Indias para el estudio de la
administración virreinal española en México
y en el Perú: 1535-1700, Lewis Hanke; con la
colaboración de Celso Rodríguez. Köln;
Wien: Böhlau, 1977. 3v. (Lateinamerikanische
Forschungen; Bd. 7) (Ref. F 1401 L322, Bd. 7)
This guide contains an index to the documents which were filmed
and a listing of other documents relating to viceregal
administration which were not filmed. The collection of film is
divided into eight sub-sections:
Spain. Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
El virreinato de Nueva España y
Perú durante los siglos XVI y XVII; correspondencia
virreinal de la Audencia de Nueva España años
1536-1673. [Madrid] Centro Nacional de Microfilm,
1975. 51 reels. 35mm. (Centro Nacional de
Microfilm. Publicaciones en microfilm, no. 60) (Microfilm A
436)
Spain. Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
El virreinato de Nueva España y
Perú durante los siglos XVI y XVII; correspondencia de
virreyes, [Perú], años 1552-1657.
[Madrid] Centro Nacional de Microfilm, 1975. 41 reels.
35mm. (Centro Nacional de Microfilm. Publicaciones en
microfilm, no. 61) (Microfilm A 437)
Spain. Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
El virreinato de Nueva España y
Perú durante los siglos XVI y XVII;
[registros: virreinato de Nueva
España.] Madrid: Servicio Nacional de
Microfilm, 1974. 88 reels. 35 mm. (Servicio
Nacional de Microfilm. Publicaciones en microfilm, no. 49,
38, 37, 39, 43) (Microfilm A 434)
Spain. Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
El virreinato de Nueva España y
Perú durante los siglos XVI y XVII; [registros: virreinato
de Nueva España.] Madrid: Servicio Nacional
de Microfilm, 1974. 95 reels. 35 mm. (Servicio
Nacional de Microfilm. Publicaciones en microfilm, no. 41,
44, 50, 54, 45, 46, 47, 48, 55, 51, 52, 53) (Microfilm A
435)
Spain. Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
El virreinato de Nueva España y
Perú durante los siglos XVI y XVII;
[residencias: virreinato de Nueva
España.] Madrid: Centro Nacional de
Microfilm, 1975. 68 reels. 35 mm. (Centro
Nacional de Microfilm. Publicaciones en microfilm, no. 62,
63) (Microfilm A 438)
Spain. Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
El virreinato de Nueva España y
Perú durante los siglos XVI y XVII; [varios: expedientes y
cartas sobre la mita de Postosí y el repartimiento de
indios de dicha mita, 1667-1701, y 1582.] Madrid:
Centro Nacional de Microfilm, 1975. 12 reels. 35
mm. (Centro Nacional de Microfilm. Publicaciones en
microfilm, no. 64) (Microfilm A 439)
Spain. Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
El virreinato de Nueva España y
Perú durante los siglos XVI y XVII; [varios: reales
decretos sobre libranzas, alcabales y arbitrios de real hacienda,
1581-1604.] Madrid: Centro Nacional de Microfilm,
1976.
68 reels. 35 mm. (Centro Nacional de Microfilm.
Publicaciones en microfilm, no. 65) (Microfilm A 440)
The film of the residencias: virreinato de
Perú was received later than the other films and
was cataloged as follows:
Archivo General de Indias.
Juicios de residencia, audencia de Lima,
años 1549-1617 [microform], Archivo General de Indias,
Sección de Justicia, Series 1a, Legajos 481 [i.e.,
451]-467. Madrid: Centro Nacional de Microfilm,
1976
23 microfilm reels; 35 mm. (Publicaciones en
microfilm. Centro Nacional de Microfilm, no. 71) (Microfilm
A 986)
Latin American pamphlets from the Yale
University Library.
New York, NY: Clearwater, 1985. (Microfiche 598) 10,500
microfiches; 11 x 15cm. "Selections from 1600-1900" --
Guide. Indexed in: Guide to Latin
American Pamphlets from the Yale University
Library. 1985. (Z1431 Y34 1985)
Great Britain. Foreign Office.
Correspondence on Mexico 1919-.
New York: Clearwater Publishing Co., c1979-. (Microfilm A
988)
135 microfilm reels covering 1919-1956 received to date. A
continuing project.
Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Colonial Reports - annual. no.
1-1936. London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1891-1940.
Microfiche. New York: Andronicus Publishing Co.,
1974. 1318 microfiches. (Microfiche 473)
Filmed by country and date, rather than by annual report
number. Includes index to the entire set.
Amnesty International, a major collection of
published and unpublished research material. Zug,
Switzerland: Inter Documentation Co., [1981?] (Microfiche
275) Includes microfiches of Amnesty International
published and unpublished material, updated by annual
supplements. Fiche in vol. 1 preceded by printed catalogue
serving as an index by country to fiche in both volumes.
Vol. 2 includes microfiches of published Amnesty International
monographs and serials. Includes material on some Latin American
and Caribbean countries.
HRAF Microfiles
New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
Microfiches produced by University Microfilm, Ann Arbor,
Michigan. (Set carries no classification number. It
is located in Microforms Room.) The University has complete
holdings of all files produced through 1988. Financial
considerations forced it to cancel its standing order at the end
of that year. Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean are
covered in this collection.
Policies and
Procedures General
The University
Library System consists of the W.E.B. DuBois Library
(in the 28-story tower) and branch libraries in the sciences and
in music. Present holdings include more than two million
books, periodical, and government documents, and over two million
microforms.
The W.E.B. DuBois Library houses most of the holdings in the
social sciences and humanities and hence the bulk of the Latin
American Collection. The Circulation Department is on the
first floor entrance level. The Office of the Latin American
Librarian is in the Collection Development Division on the 4th
Floor (Tel. Number (414) 545-0058) Office hours: Monday -
Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Library
Catalog, periodical indexes and databases, reference
and information desks, microforms, and interlibrary loan are all
on the Main Floor, one floor down from the entrance level.
Current periodicals and newspapers, and bound periodical
backfiles from l990 to the present are shelved on the 2nd
floor. Bound volumes before 1990 are shelved with the books
in the stacks. The law collection is on the 5th floor, and
Government Documents (with its own staff and card catalog) is on
the 6th floor. The departments of Archives and
Manuscripts and
Rare
Books are on the 25th floor (Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. -
3:00 p.m.)
University Library
Hours or call (414) 545-0414.
For other information call the Reference Department
(413-545-0150), or visit the Library's home
page.
Stack Access and Circulation
Policies
The stacks of the Library are open to all users. Monographs
may be borrowed in person by members of the University community
with valid I.D. cards and by other members of the Five College
community who have Five College photo I.D.'s. Citizens of
the State of Massachusetts may also obtain borrower's cards on
presenting proof of identity and residence. Faculty and
students of the Latin American Studies Consortium receive
borrowing privileges according to the Consortium Reciprocal Borrowing
Agreement. Others may borrow through interlibrary loan (see
below). Journals do not circulate, nor do art and
photography books shelved on the 9th floor.
Public Services
Reference
Reference librarians are on duty at the Reference and Information
Desk on the Main Floor of the W.E.B. DuBois Library whenever the
building is open for service, with the exception of hours after
10:00 p.m. Tel. (413)-545-0150.
Electronic
Databases
Most electronic databases are located on the Main Floor.
The Library has over 50 workstations and will soon be providing
public access to the World Wide Web. For the UMass
community, many of the databases are available via the
Internet. Call (413) 545-0150 for more information.
Microform Readers
Readers-printers for microfilm, microfiche and microcards are
located in the
Microforms Room
on the Main Floor. Prints may be made by a copy card
that can be purchased here or by coins (15c per microfiche
print, 25c per microfilm print).
Photocopying
There are self-service copiers (10c per print) on the Main Floor
and Floors 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 19. Copy cards may be
purchased for $5.00 or for $10.00 at a vending machine on the
Main Floor. The library does not make change.
Interlibrary
Loan
The Library will supply materials from its collections through
interlibrary loan. Inquire at your campus library about
this service.
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The Latin American Collection at Yale University contains a wealth of research material and offers a variety of research opportunities for Latin American studies. The collecting policy is to acquire the important editorial production in the fields of the humanities and social sciences published in South America, México, Central America and the Caribbean. Within this policy of developing a general, area wide collection, special strengths have resulted from the acquisition of important collections during the past 100 years.
The basis of the Latin American collections at Yale was established early in the 20th Century with a succession of acquisitions and gifts from Henry Raup Wagner, William S. Beebe, and Hiram Bingham. Wagner and Bingham were Yale alumni whose substantial gifts to Yale included collections rich in 19th century Latin American material. These collections were notable for their historical, political, and economic materials relating to México and Perú. Hiram Bingham, Yale professor of history and curator of Yale's collection of Latin American History from 1908-1930, sold and donated to Yale a collection of Peruvian materials strong in literature, archaeology, anthropology and folklore. His gifts also included the Francisco Pérez de Velasco library of 19th century Peruvian history, and many books from the Peruvian historian, Manuel de Odriozola. Together with the acquisition of part of the select library of Mexican historian Genaro García, all of these acquisitions made Yale's Mexican and Peruvian collections internationally known.
The library also has an impressive collection of Brazilian materials. The strength of the collection lies in the sizeable numbers of works on Brazilian history, literature, travel accounts, and regional histories. The collection is particularly rich in materials relating to colonial Brazilian history. The James Watson Webb Collection, detailing his service as American Minister to Pedro II's Court in Brazil, and the Percival Farquhar Collection, relating to railroad building and business ventures in Brazil during the first half of the 20th Century, are also part of Yale's Brazilian collection.
Other collections of major importance at Yale are those representing Argentina, Chile, Cuba and Central America. Argentina is comprehensively represented, especially in early 20th century publications. The collections of Carlos A Tornquist and Davis Curtis DeForest form the basis of Yale's Argentine holdings. The material donated by Tornquist had a strong emphasis on literature, history, oratory, law and sociology. The Chilean collection contains a respectable number of works on Chilean history and literature, covering the period from 1875 to the present. In the late 1960s and 1970s a successful systematic effort was made to build up the Chilean collection. The history of Cuba and Cuban literature are also well represented at Yale. The library has been very successful in acquiring large numbers of Cuban publications during the difficult Castro period. After the Cuban revolution, excellent exchange agreements were established with Cuban libraries, publishers, university presses, and government agencies. These agreements provided the collection with literary publications, serials, government publications, and other research materials. In 1981 the acquisition of the Franco Cerutti Central American Library added more than 10,000 titles to the library. When added to Yale's already considerable Central American holdings, it made Yale a key repository of Central American materials.
Currently, the collection comprises approximately 400,000 printed volumes, including monographs, serials, newspapers, and government documents, and is growing at a rate of 8,500 volumes a year. It has subscriptions to more than 3,500 Latin American periodicals and monographic series. In addition to printed matter the collection is rich in manuscript material, and it contains a newspaper microfilm collection of 10,000 reels, as well as such non-book materials as photographs, documentary film, sound recordings, sheet maps, musical scores, archaeological artifacts and paintings.
Although Yale's concentration of Latin American research material is housed in Sterling Memorial Library, there are important collections classified under an old Yale classification scheme and housed in the Seeley Mudd Library. These materials are sometimes referred to as the “Latin American Country Collections”. Apart from the Latin American Collection, sizeable Latin American holdings are also found in the Economic Growth Center Collection, and the Divinity, Law, Social Science and Beinecke Libraries. Smaller collections are found in the Music, Art, Medical and Kline Science Libraries and the Peabody Museum. The Economic Growth Center Collection is unique among collections of its kind in the United States. The collection contains extensive holdings of statistical publications issued by government agencies, private institutions and central banks from every country in Latin America. Social scientists have found this collection to be invaluable in their research on the economic development of Latin America.
The Curator of the Latin American Collection is available for
consultation and provides advanced reference services to students
and faculty by appointment. The offices of the collection are
located on the 3rd floor of Sterling Memorial Library.
Memberships Seminar
on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials
(SALALM)
Latin American North East Libraries Consortium (LANE)
ARL Latin
Americanists Research Pilot Project
A table of contents current awareness database for serials in the
project can be accessed at UT-LANIC. Inter-library
loan document delivery can be requested directly from the
database.
Center for
Research Libraries (CRL)
Latin American
Microfilm Project (LAMP)
Research Library Group
(RLG)
Selective
Inventory of Resources Journals The
Library has a subscription to over 3,500 Latin American
periodicals. The Yale University current journals are not listed
here due the large volume. Please consult the ORBIS
catalog for specific titles.
Newspapers Yale University has a
collection of over 10,000 reels of newspaper microfilm. Listed
below is a selection for Latin America.
ARGENTINA
La Prensa, 1857; 1869-1951;1956-date,
Micro
Pagina 12, 1987-date, Paper/Micro
BRAZIL
Folha de Sao Paulo, 1988 -1995,
Paper/Micro
Jornal do Brasil, 1965 -1989,
Paper/Micro
O Estado de Sao Paulo, 1875-date,
Micro
CHILE
El Mercurio 1962-date, Micro
COLUMBIA
El Tiempo 1962-June 1993, Micro
COSTA RICA
La Nacion 1983-date, Micro
CUBA
Granma 1965-date, Micro
Granma Internacional 1966-1977;
1979-1990; 1992, Paper/Micro
Juventud Rebelde 1984; 1986-1994,
Paper/Micro
Los Trabajadores 1980-date,
Paper/Micro
MEXICO
El Nacional 1985-1991, Micro
Excelsior 1918-1985, Micro
La Jornada 1991-date,
Paper/Micro
Uno mas uno 1980-1991, Micro
La Reforma 1995-date, Paper
NICARAGUA
Barricada July 1979- date,
Micro
El Nuevo Diario 1980-date,
Paper/Micro
La Prensa 1987-date Paper
1965-1970;1978-1986, Micro
PERU
El comercio 1894-1912; 1925-date,
Micro
PUERTO RICO
San Juan Star 1975-1987, Micro, &
1988-date (Paper)
URUGUAY
El Dia 1970-1990, Micro
Special Collections Following are brief
descriptions of special collections in the Yale Library system
relating to the study of Latin America:
Bingham Collections: There are two collections that relate to Hiram Bingham (1875-1956), explorer, professor, curator, senator, and they reflect his lifelong interest in Latin America. This wealth of personal papers includes correspondence, journals, scrapbooks, and manuscripts of his many publications. The Yale Peruvain Expedition Papers contain most of the material on the Peruvian expeditions which Bingham organized and directed as a joint venture between Yale and the National Geographic Society. The Bingham Family Papers contain his research and teaching material on Latin America.
Franco Cerutti Central American Collection: A collection consisting of over 10,000 Central American imprints on literature, history, civilization, government, general geography, travel, general economic and social conditions, and religious affairs. The majority of the material concerns two countries: Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The rest of the collection emphasizes El Salvador, Honduras, Panama and Belize.
De Forest Family Papers: In his career as a merchant, privateer and diplomat in the early stages of the Argentine republic, DeForest accumulated eight letterbooks, seven journals or diaries and five account books. These materials constitute a rich source for the commercial and political history of the Rio de la Plata area in the late colonial and revolutionary period.
De Levis Papers: A unique adjunct to the sources for Caribbean historical research at the Yale Library is the story of the estates in Martinique which figured in an inheritance case brought to court in 1831 by Gaston-Francois-Christophe de Levis. The de Levis family papers cover the entire record of this litigation as well as related matters going back to 1707 and include two maps of the de Levis estates.
Del Monte Library: A portion of the vast library amassed by the Cuban writer and book collector Domingo Del Monte y Aponte (1804-1853), was purchased by Yale in 1888. This included 160 books and 22 manuscript volumes. Many of the manuscripts are royal and papal decrees from the 17th and 18th centuries regarding Indian affairs.
Percival Farquhar Papers: The business papers of the American entrepreneur Percival Farquhar (1864-1953), a major figure in the economic development of Brazil in the first half of the 20th century, constitute a useful source for the economic and political history of Brazil and its emergence as a modern state. This material also includes documents relating to railroad construction in Brazil, Guatemala, and Cuba during the first half of the 20th century.
Henry Hill Papers: Hill a merchant and later on vice-consul to Valparaiso, lived in Chile from 1817 to 1821 during the revolutionary period. The Hill papers document the social and political life in Chile during this turbulent period. The material consists of approximately 1,100 letters and other documents.
Latin American Pamphlets Collection: This collection comprised of approximately 10,000 items is a priceless resource of material that provides first-hand documentation of the social, political and economic conditions in Latin America. The time range of the collection stretches across four centuries, from the 17th to the early 20th century-although the majority of the papers are from the 19th century. These pamphlets come from the private collections of the following individuals: Hiram Bingham, Henry R. Wagner, Genaro Garcia and Fransico Perez de Velasco. The collection is divided into three sections: “Mexico”, “Peru”, and a “Miscellaneous” section that encompasses Central and South America. A 7 volume “Guide to Latin American Pamphlets from the Yale University Library” is available for easy access to the collection. The guide indexes each section by subject, alphabetically by author and title, and chronologically.
Lindley and Charles Eberstadt Collection: This collection is the finest in existence concerning the life, times, and events of the Central American Federation from its foundation in 1825 through its dissolution in 1838 and of its individual components-the Republics of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. There are official documents, private reports, military relations, constitutions and treaties. Many of the 961 rare, early and important imprints are unrecorded and unknown to history and bibliography. Also included are 314 rare imprints of the War of independence in Mexico.
Mexican Broadside Collection: Approximately 7,000 uncataloged items, mainly from the Henry R, Wagner collections, include broadsides that cover a wide range of topic including politics, economics, Indians, slavery, health matters, natural disasters, and the inquisition. There are also government regulations, ordinances, custom regulations, taxation and proclamations.
Puebla Archives 1565-1878: These archives consists of legal manuscripts relating to church and state affairs of the Mexican state of Puebla covering the years 1565-1878. The papers are arranged in four groups: Registers and Lists; Criminal Cases; Civil Cases; and Miscellaneous records relating to church and town affairs.
Cuban Collection: The Yale Library has a collection of over 6,000 unique photographs of Fidel Castro’s war activities in the Oriente Mountains. Included in this collection is the original NBC newsreel film of the Cuban rebel army in 1958 (showing among other things, Che Guevara making a bomb), the complete footage of picture and sound taken by David Stone film-making group in Cuba in 1969 (23 hours in color), and the manuscript notebooks, interviews, transcripts and legal documents of the Cuban Revolutionary Government.
James Watson Webb Papers: These papers relate to Webb’s service as American Minister to Pedro II’s Court in Brazil from 1861-1865. The papers, notably his diplomatic correspondence with Secretary of Sate William H. Seward, reports of negotiations over incidents involving Confederate and Union ships in Brazilian territorial waters, personal letters and diaries reflecting life at the Brazilian court.
Microform Collections A complete list of microform
holdings including locations and finding aid information.
Policies and
Procedures General
The Yale Library collections are one of the world’s largest
and most distinguished. The Yale University Library is a generic
term for the libraries of Yale University. These include Sterling
Memorial Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Law Library, and some forty-five
other school, department, and college libraries. Check here for
Library locations.
The Curator of the Latin American Collection is available for consultation and provides advanced reference services to students and faculty by appointment. The offices of the collection are located on the 3rd floor of Sterling Memorial Library.
Curator: César Rodriguez
- Office: Sterling Memorial Library 316
- Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am.-5:00pm
- Telephone: (203) 432-1835 Fax: (203) 432-7231
- Mail: Yale University Library Latin American Collection, Box 208240, 130 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8240
- Access to materials
Access to the collections at Yale for faculty and students of the Latin American Studies Consortium of New England is obtained through the Consortium Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement.
Bibliographic access to the Library ia available via ORBIS, the main catalog. This system does not contain all of the materials housed at Yale, but measures are being taken to complete this task.
Yale Library hours. Call 203- 432-2642 for changes in Library hours.
Public Services
For complete information on Reader’s
Services at Yale, including information on photocopying,
microform readers, electronic databases, etc., is available on
the Web.
Updated 05/17/99