Latin American Studies

Among CRL's most important and unique holdings are extensive runs of several hundred newspapers published in Latin America and the Caribbean, dating from the colonial period to the present. CRL houses rare and uncommon primary sources from Latin America. LAMP (Latin American Materials Project) acquired microfilm sets and digitized many materials. A second program, LARRP (Latin American Research Resource Program), is a collaborative effort to improve access to resources to digital content. CRL’s digital repository contains many government documents and newspapers from Latin America. Some of the digital contents were created by one of these two programs. Here are two examples: The Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project resulted in 673,000 images of government publications. LAMP and CRL digitized executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national government between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available date to the end of the Empire in 1889. The content is available in CRL’s digital depository.  LARRP explored avenues for providing greater access to Latin American Official Documents and administered the Argentine and Mexican Presidential Messages Digital Database.

CRL collaborated with Cornell University Library to support creation of the Latin American Journals Project, hosted by Cornell.  This digital portal leads to a wide range of Latin American popular serial literature published in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Latin America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  “Many of these journals remain difficult to find in their printed form, and/or hard to access in private collections, including in many of the countries where the journals first appeared” (citing Cornell).