The Latin American Library at Tulane University

The Latin American Library houses 460,000 circulating volumes, over 13,500 rare books, a unique collection of Mexican pictorial manuscripts, over 4000 linear feet of manuscripts dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and substantial collections of rare printed ephemera. The Library also houses Latin American government publications, maps and broadsides, historic newspapers, and a growing collection of digital resources.

Notable strengths of the collection include: Central American history and culture; the Southern states of Mexico; primary and secondary resources for the study of native languages, history and cultures, particularly from Mesoamerica; the Spanish American colonial and early Republican periods; Latin American art history and architecture from all periods; popular culture such as folk art, tourism and carnival. Holdings are in Spanish, Portuguese, English and other western languages with substantial holdings in Mesoamerican languages.