About the Latin American Studies Collection

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Collection Description
Cooperative Agreements
Purchase Recommendation Form
New Acquisitions

Collection Description

The Latin American materials of the University of California, Berkeley Library System are among the richest collections of retrospective, contemporary and documentary materials in the United States. They consist of approximately 450,000 bound volumes and 800 current serials subscriptions. The collections are housed in the Bancroft Library, the Doe Library and some forty specialized libraries.

The Hubert Howe Bancroft Library provides an early focus for Latin American acquisitions. Bancroft's writings covered Pre-Colombian indigenous populations to the modern societies of his times. The collection contains all forms of primary and secondary sources.

The Doe Library and the forty branch or affiliated libraries that form the Berkeley library system have been building the Latin American collections for over one hundred years now. They have benefited greatly from a series of long standing exchange programs with over 400 institutions that compliment the regular acquisition of materials from dealers and publishers.

The Doe Library system holds country collections of substantial strength for Argentina, Peru and Ecuador. Important serials collections are also available for most countries up to the late 1970s.

The Berkeley Library System maintains extensive cooperative agreements with peer institutions in the U.S. and abroad, among them Stanford University, the University of Texas in Austin and the National Libraries of Chile and Cuba.

Latin American related reference materials in the humanities and the social scienes are kept at the Reference Center (Doe Library) and at the referecne sections of many of the specialized libraries on campus. The major part of the colletion in these fields in located in the Gardner Stacks. Other libraries like Biosciences Library (flora, fauna), and Anthropology house specialized collections.

Cooperative Agreements

CALAFIA (California Cooperative Latin American Collection Development Group)
Jose Marti National Library of Cuba
LAMP (Latin American Microform Project of the Center for Research Libraries")

Purchase Recommendation Form

If you'd like to recommend an item to be added to the collection, please use the Purchase Recommendation Form.

New Acquisitions

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