About Us

Latin American and Caribbean Library Collections and Services

Staff

Paula Carns, interim Librarian

Contact Us

425 Main Library
1408 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801 U.S.A.
Phone: (217) 244-0483
Fax: (217) 333-2214
Email: pcarns@illinois.edu

Hours

Monday-Friday 9-5

Services

The Latin American and Caribbean Library offers a rich array of library services for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The Library's homepage features a wealth of print and electronic resources by discipline with quick links to important databases for easy consultation. The Library's knowledgeable staff is can happy to answer questions and assist in research, either in-person, by phone or by email. The Librarian offers a full suite of instructional services: from in-class presentations to library tours.

Collection

The UIUC Library's collections of Latin American and Caribbean materials represent one of the largest in the Midwest and among the top 10 in the United States. They include extensive print and electronic holdings (books, journals, databases, series, cd-roms and films) in all areas but especially in the social sciences and humanities, such as anthropology, economics, history, literature, linguistics, political science and sociology. The Latin America and the Caribbean Librarian, subject specialist librarians in the UIUC Library system, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies work closely together to collect materials to support the research and teaching needs of UIUC faculty and students.

The collection includes:

More than 400,000 monograph titles;
Newspapers and magazines from over 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries;
A strong collection of journals in the humanities and social sciences, as well as publications of professional associations, government agencies, central banks, and non-governmental organizations;
Access to HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index), the Handbook of Latin American Studies, and other online databases;
An extensive collection of videos available in the Undergraduate Library;
over 32,000 maps of Latin America (housed in the Map and Geography Library);
comprehensive holdings of Brazilian and Andean materials;
Extensive holdings by and about Gabriel García Márquez;
Publications from the Archivo General de la Nación de México; and
A comprehensive Latin American music collection.

The Latin American and Caribbean library materials are scattered throughout the UIUC departmental libraries and Main Stacks.

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