CLAS hosted a series of research workshops on archives and collections from prestigious libraries on March 4, 2022. The librarians who presented included: Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez (Princeton University), Sarah Aponte (CUNY-Dominican Studies Institute), Laura Martin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Martin Tsang (University of Miami, Cuban Heritage Collection). They each offered an overview of their collections and highlights, then a session on “hot topics” in librarianship such as research grants, community engagement, collection building, and exhibit curating. The final session was devoted to examples of ephemera from each collection (letters, photographs, Cuban ration cards, writers’ manuscripts). This interactive, hybrid session was attended by undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and librarians (staff and faculty).
Many thanks to CLAS faculty and staff, and our co-sponsors:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
RU Libraries
School of Arts and Sciences Humanities Dean
“Tres Marias” Camões/FLAD Chair in Portuguese Studies
Professor Marcy Schwartz
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Resources from the Workshop
Resources from the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York
- Dominican Digital Resources
- Educational Programs
- Dominican Open Source Publications
- Dominican Studies: Guide to Library and Archives Resources
- Research Fellows and Visiting Scholars
Resources from New York Public Library (NYPL)
Resources from Princeton University Library
- Latin America, Spain and Portugal: Guide to Library Resources at Princeton
- Archives of Latin American Writers and Intellectuals in Special Collections
- Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera
- Other Digital Collections:
- Visitors: Accessing Princeton University Library Collections
- Princeton University Library Research Grants
Resources from the University of Miami
- Cuban Heritage Collection website
- CHC Digital Collections
- CHC Web archive
- Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program
Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Other important Latin American research collections in the U.S.:
- Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin
- Berkeley University
- Harvard University
- Hispanic Division, U.S. Library of Congress
- Indiana University
- The John Carter Brown Library (JCB)
- Latin American Library, Tulane University
- Latin American and Caribbean Collection, University of Florida
- Oliveira Lima Library, Catholic University of America
- Stanford University
- University of California Los Angeles
- University of New Mexico
- Vanderbilt University
- Yale University
Key Latin American Studies research resources:
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
- Handbook of Latin American Studies
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
- Información y Documentación de la Ciencia en España (ÍnDICEs-CSIC)
- WorldCat
- LACLI (Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx, and Iberian Online Free e-Resources)
- Latin American & Caribbean Digital Primary Sources | SALALM
- Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
- Primeros Libros de las Américas
- Latin American and Spanish Videos Freely Available on the Internet: a Guide to Web Sources
- Researching Brazil | Pesquisa no Brasil
Funding Opportunities
- The University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program is a digital scholarship/research undertaking to provide training and research on US Latino recovered materials. https://artepublicopress.com/recovery-program/grantsinaid/
- Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program. The Goizueta Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program provides assistance for supporting doctoral research at the Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC). https://www.library.miami.edu
- Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices is a grant competition administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the US and Canada. https://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/
- Stanford Libraries Access Grant: The Center for Latin American Studies and Stanford University Libraries offer library access grants for faculty from qualified U.S. minority serving institutions (MSIs) and community colleges to conduct research relating to Latin America using Stanford University Libraries. https://clas.stanford.edu/educatorslibrary-resources/stanford-libraries-access-grants
- Princeton University Library Research Grants
Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the research collections.
https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/friends-princeton-university-library-research-grants
Important Professional Organizations
- Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
- Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
Contact information
- Sarah Aponte - Chief Librarian and Associate Professor, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, The City College of New York, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Paloma Celis Carbajal, Curator for Latin American, Iberian, and U.S. Latino Collections, The New York Public Library, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, Librarian for Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies, Princeton University Library, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Martin Tsang, Cuban Heritage Collection Librarian and Curator of Latin American Collections, University of Miami, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Laura Martin, Ibero-American Studies and Romance Languages Librarian, UW-Madison This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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