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Ibero-American
Studies and Library Materials
The
University of New Mexico University Libraries holds one of the
leading public university research collections on Ibero-America
in the United States. The collection of more than 400,000 volumes
includes books, periodicals, CD-ROMs, maps, manuscripts, and archival
holdings as well as photographs, broadsheets, posters, and other
visual resources. Local holdings are complemented by a continually
expanding range of electronically accessible material. These resources,
on-site and remote, serve more than 150 faculty affiliated with
the University's Latin American & Iberian Institute; a student
population of more than 24,000; and visiting scholars and researchers
from throughout the United States and abroad. The Latin American
Studies program currently includes 37 degree and dual-degree options
focused on Latin American and enrolls some 450 graduate students
annually.
In
addition, the UNM Library is a member of two national collection
development and resource-sharing programs, the Latin American Microform
Project (LAMP), which operates under the umbrella of the
Center for Research Libraries, and the ARL/AAU Latin Americanist
Research Resources Pilot Project. These two programs, with
their provisions for expedited interlibrary loan and document delivery,
add substantially to the common pool of of primary and secondary
material available for research on Latin American topics.
Use
of Local Collections
The
collections are available to students, faculty, and staff of the
University of New Mexico and to outside researchers. Many materials
require special handling and must be used in authorized areas.
Finding aids, bibliographies, and in-house indices are available
for a number of specialized Ibero-American holdings. For information
concerning hours, service policies, and specialized reference and
research assistance, please contact:
Carolyn Mountain, <carolynm@unm.edu>
Manager, Division of Iberian and Latin American Resources and Services
Specialized
Latin American and Iberian Holdings in the University Libraries
The
Library's resources include a number of rare and unusual Ibero-American
materials that offer special opportunities for study and research.
Two
private libraries acquired by the University in the late 1930s,
the Paul Van de Velde and the Thomas B. Catron collections, formed
the core of the library's holdings of rare and specialized Ibero-Americana.
The Van de Velde collection is particularly rich in Mexican history
and anthropology, and the Catron collection in Iberian and Mexican
political and religious history. Together, the two libraries added
more than 9,000 volumes from Mexico, Spain, and Portugal to the
Library's special collections. Continued acquisitions, grants from
programs within the Federal Government and from the Rockefeller,
Ford, and Burlington Northern Foundations as well as libraries
donated by individuals have permitted the expansion of the collections
and the development of new areas of strength.
Significant
Collections of Ibero-American Materials in the University Libraries
Sam
L. Slick Collection of Latin American & Iberian Posters: Developments
The
Collection has been augmented by the addition of more than 125
posters from Puerto Rico, approximately half of which are silkscreens
and include prints done over the last several decades by Rafael
Tufiño, Lorenzo Homar, Juan Rosa Castellanos, Eduardo
Vera, and Antonio Martorell, as well as posters done by Martorell’s
students in his Taller Alacrán. The Collection has also
added 35 scarce posters from Chile and Peru, focusing on the
themes of land reform and campesino mobilization during the Allende
and Velasco Alvarado administrations, respectively. The majority
of the Peruvian posters were done in flamboyant pop-art style
by Jesús Ruiz Durand.
The
Library is advancing its plans for a major exhibition of Latin
American political and cultural posters, in collaboration with
the National Hispanic Cultural Center. The majority of images
to be exhibited will come from the Slick Collection. Scheduled
to open in Fall 2006 at the NHCC, the exhibition will be accompanied
by an international symposium, a website, a series of public
events, and a bilingual catalog with essays contributed by curators
and art historians from Latin America and the U.S. It will also
travel to other sites.
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José Toribio
Medina Collection
First editions of books written or edited by Medina, including many of the
rarest imprints produced on the Ercilla and Elzeviriana presses. The collection
also includes scarce bio-bibliographical studies of Medina. ca. 150 vols.
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T.
Lynn Smith Rural Sociology Archive
Printed items and manuscript material collected by Smith during a lifetime
of studying the sociology of rural life. The holdings concentrate on the years
1920 to 1970 and have a strong Latin American focus. 8,000+ pamphlets & 40
linear feet. A web-searchable database of the pamphlets is currently under
development.
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Latin
American Travel Narratives
Contemporaneously published accounts of American, British, and Continental
travelers to Latin America from colonial times to 1900. Holdings are strongest
for Brazil and Mexico. Several hundred vols.
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Mexican
Bookplate
Collection
Individual and institutional bookplates as well as booksellers' and bookbinders'
adhesives, dating from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
170 Mexican & 4 French bookplates.
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Mexican
Popular
Graphic
Material
Large and varied collection of prints, broadside and illustrated books, magazines,
newspapers, and penny press publications from the mid-nineteenth century through
the 1970s. Of particular note are works by José Guadalupe
Posada (400+ items, including many original broadsides, chapbook covers,
bullfighter portrait series, and leaflets), a substantial archive documenting
the work of the preeminent Mexican printmaking cooperative, the Taller
de Gráfica Popular (portfolios and individual posters,
prints, and ephemera produced by TGP artists Leopoldo Méndez, Alfredo
Beltrán, Arturo García Bustos, Pablo O'Higgins, Alfredo Zalce,
Angel Bracho, Mariana Yampolski, Elizabeth Catlett, et al.; as well as newspapers,
magazines, and literary and political texts illustrated by TGP artists), and
Mexican political, satirical, and scientific magazines and periodicals from
the early Porfirian period to the Revolution (including a large body of work
by Constantino Escalante).
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Oaxacan
Research
Collection
Rare and scarce Oaxacan newspapers and magazines (1840s to 1930s), Indian grammars
and dictionaries, historical treatises, pamphlets, political and religious
broadsides and manuscripts, laws and decrees, and unpublished works by Antonio
Peñafiel, Manuel Martínez Gracida, and others. Collectively,
the material offers a rich and unified portrait of Oaxacan life from pre-Columbian
times through the early twentieth century. 1,000+ vols.
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Maximilian-French
intervention
Material
Printed works from 1861-1867 by Mexican, North American, French, Austrian,
and German authors; complemented by manuscripts, political ephemera, photographs,
and newspapers. ca. 500 vols.
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Mexican
and
Luso-Brazilian Almanacs & Calendarios
Almanacs and yearbooks from the nineteenth and early twentieth century covering
agriculture, religion, politics, and commerce. The collection includes nearly
100 years of the Almanach de Lembranças Luso-Brasileiras. All major
Mexican printers of this material are represented. Several hundred vols.
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France
V.
Scholes Papers
Scholes' correspondence with distinguished Latin American historians and anthropologists,
his personal notebooks, and copies of documents from the AGI and AGN, covering
major figures and topics in the ethnohistory of early colonial Mexico. ca.
50 boxes.
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New
Mexico
Archives and
Spanish Colonial
Documents
Primary source material in microform or photoprint copy from various Spanish
and Mexican archives dealing with topics in the civil and ecclesiastical administration
of the Viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain from the immediate post-conquest
period to Independence. ca. 300 microfilm reels & 600 bound vols. of documents.
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Columbian
Quincentenary
Archive
A comprehensive world-wide collection of primary and secondary materials, in
all formats, documenting the 1992 Quincentenary on popular and scholarly levels.
ca. 85 linear feet.
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Brazilian
Small
Press Collection
Monographs and periodicals published by avant-garde and small presses throughout
Brazil since the 1940s. The collection documents vital elements of Brazilian
literary and cultural life and includes fiction, short stories, plays, poetry,
crônicas, and literatura de cordel. ca. 3,500 cordel & 4,000 small
press vols.
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Latin
American
Photographic Materials
The Library has significant holdings of Latin American photography (c. 1860
to c. 1970) of interest to researchers in many disciplines. Locales include
Mexico, Central, and South America. Subjects include archaeology, ethnology,
architecture, art, politics, popular culture, landscapes, economic activities,
and scenes of everyday life. A variety of photographic formats are represented: cartes-de-visite,
albumen prints, postcards, slides, glass negatives, and modern prints -- some
of exhibition quality. Of special interest are cartes-de-visite portraits
of Maximilian and his circle and tipos populares (street vendors) by
the Cruces y Campa Studio, Mayan monuments taken by Alfred P. Maudslay and
Teobert Maler, railroad photographs by William Henry Jackson, Vistas mexicanas series
by E. Briquet, political and military leaders of the Revolution of 1910 and
scenes of the Revolutionary scenes taken by L.R. Pimentel, Hugo Brehme landscapes
of Popocatepetl in eruption, C.B. Waite's tropical plantation views, 19th-
and 20th-century mining photographs, Marc Ferrez's Albumen prints of Rio de
Janeiro, early (1860s) views of Corrientes (Argentina), and 20th-century study
of Andean Indians by George Bunzl. Many new acquisitions have been added to
this continually growing collection. (For information concerning the use and
copying of photographic materials, contact Mike Kelley, Acting Curator of Pictorial
Collections, Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 )
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Archivo
ARMAS (Archivo
de Revistas Militares Americanas
y
de Seguridad)
The
Archivo
ARMAS
is
not a
physically
integrated
collection as
such,
nor
is it,
properly
speaking,
an archive.
Rather,
it
refers to
a
major
collection of
journals
published
by the
armed
forces
in all
of
the
South American
countries,
augmented
by periodicals
issued
by
national police
forces
and
by strategic
studies
institutes.
The chronological
coverage
varies
from country
to
country,
spanning in
some
cases
the entire
twentieth
century
and more,
in
other
cases, one
or
two
decades only.
In
terms
of both
number
and
range of
titles
and
breadth of
years
covered,
the
collection is
strongest
for
Argentina, Brazil,
Chile,Bolivia,
and
Colombia. A
complete
listing
of titles
in
the
collection (including
call
number
and physical
location
within
the University
Libraries)
will
be found
by
clicking
on the
word "journals" high-lighted
above.
Principal
topics
covered include
national
security,
armaments, civil-military
relations,
military
recruitment, military
history,
and
geopolitical strategy.
Issues
are
held in
either
microfilm,
or original
hard-copy,
or
xerox. The
name "Archivo
Armas" was
given
to
the
collection during
the
initial
acquisitions phase
(1994-95),
when--by
means of
a
grant
from the
DOE’s
short-lived
Foreign
Periodicals
Program--the University
of
New
Mexico set
out
to
form a
comprehensive
collection
of Latin
American
military
periodicals (focusing
on
the
period 1945-1995)
and
thereby
fill a
void
in
the holdings
of
North
American research
libraries.
Although
major acquisitions
work
ended
with the
termination
of
the grant,
the
Library
maintains subscriptions
to
approximately
a dozen
titles.
Additional
backfiles are
also
added
as opportunities
arise
for
either purchases
or
donations.
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