Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections

Welcome! The Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) specializes in interdisciplinary subjects relating to New Mexico, the Southwestern U.S., Mexico and Latin America, as well as rare materials from around the world. Our strengths include Native American, Chicano/Hispano, Spanish Colonial, and environmental history, plus a wide range of locally published and archival materials documenting the region.

Search our collections:

Use the tools to the left to find CSWR collections in the library catalog, archival finding aids, and digital resources.

The Rocky Mountain Online Archive includes information about archival collections in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Finding aids give detailed descriptions of primary source materials located at twenty-seven different repositories. Materials held in the Center for Southwest Research can be requested in the Anderson Reading Room.

Find books in the libraries and online using LIBROS. Use WorldCat Local to view books in libraries worldwide. Books from the CSWR can be requested in the Anderson Reading Room, and do not circulate.

New Mexico's Digital Collections are digitized materials from libraries, archives, and museums in New Mexico.

LoboVault is UNM's Institutional Repository. It hosts scholarly publications from UNM faculty, graduate student theses and dissertations from 2009 through the present, UNM administrative records, and more.