Association of Research Libraries
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

Latin American Partner Institutions

Under the sponsorship of the University of Texas at Austin General Libraries, the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project was awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Education under the Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access Program (TICFIA). The grant supports the development of a cooperative model for partnering with Latin American libraries to contribute to the LAPTOC database. Gayle Williams, Librarian for Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, serves as Coordinator of Latin American Partnerships. During the grant period from 1999 to 2002, seven partners joined the project. Ms. Williams identified potential partners in Latin America, made visits to each, trained staff, and established policies and procedures to implement the project. Please contact Ms. Williams at gwillia@emory.edu for further information on the Latin American Partners program.
• Biblioteca Inca, Cochabamba, Bolivia
  Library director:   Mónica Montoya.   -   E-mail:  incabook@albatros.cnb.net
  Address:                 Zona Frutillar, Avenida Roma #500, Cochabamba, Bolivia
  Mailing addres:     Casilla 1514, Cochabamba, Bolivia
  Telephone:             (591) (04) 490930   -  Fax: (591) (04) 290148
  Web page:              www.incabooks.com

  
  

  Biblioteca Inca is a private library that specializes in materials on the Andean region of South America. Its founder is Alfredo Montalvo, owner of Editorial Inca, a leading bookdealer on Andean materials.
  • Site Visit Report May 2000
  • La Biblioteca Inca se conecta con 44 centros de documentación Article in Bolivian daily Los Tiempos, 16/05/2000

  
  

• Biblioteca CIRMA, Antigua, Guatemala
  Library director:   Francisco Ralón  -   E-mail:   cirmabiblio@guate.net
  Address:                5a Calle Oriente No. 5, La Antigua, Guatemala
  Telephone:             (502)832-1006  -   Fax: (502) 832-2083
  Web page:              www.cirma.net
  The Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA) is one of Central America's premier research institutes. Due to CIRMA's leadership in dealing with topics in the social sciences and local indigenous peoples, its research library has become an important repository for Central American materials.
  • Site Visit Report August 2000

• Universidad de Puerto Rico, University Libraries, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico
  Library director:           Prof. Ramón Budet  -   E-mail:   rbudet@rrpac.upr.clu.edu
  Project Coordinator:    Almaluces Figueroa   -   E-mail:   afiguer@rrpac.upr.clu.edu
  Address:                         Sistema de Bibliotecas, Recinto de Río Piedras, Universidad de Puerto Rico
  Mailing address:             P.O. Box 23302, Estación Universidad, Río Piedras, PR 00931-3302
  Telephone:                     (787) 764-0000   Extensions 3311, 5085, 5089   -   Fax:  (787) 764-0270
  Web page:                      biblioteca.uprrp.edu
  

  The University Libraries of the Universidad de Puerto Rico campus in Río Piedras is the largest library in the UPR system. Its extensive holdings include the Colección Puertorriqueña and the Biblioteca Regional del Caribe y de Estudios Latinoamericanos.

  • Site Visit Report October 2001

• University of the West Indies, Main Library, St. Augustine, Trinidad
  Library director:           Dr. Margaret D. Rouse-Jones  -  E-mail:   mrousejo@library.uwi.tt
  Project Coordinator:    Floris Fraser   -   E-mail:   ffraser@library.uwi.tt
  Address:                        The University Libraries, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
  Telephone:                     868-662-2002  -   Fax: 868-662-2002
  Web page:                     www.mainlib.uwi.tt
  

  The UWI University Libraries have the distinction of having two of their special collections named to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, the Derek Walcott Collection, and the Eric Williams Memorial Collection.

  • Site Visit Report September 2001

• Universidad de San Andrés, Biblioteca Max von Buch
  Library director:           Lic. Mariela Frias  -   E-mail:   mfrias@udesa.edu.ar
  Project Coordinator:    Andrea Saladino   -   E-mail:   andre@udesa.edu.ar
  Address:                         Vito Dumas 284 Esquina Arias, (B1644BID) Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Telephone:                     (54-11) 4725-7065     -   Fax:  (54-11) 4725-7027
  Web page:                      biblioteca.udesa.edu.ar
  

  The Biblioteca Max von Buch of the Universidad de San Andrés has a collection of over 25,000 volumes, near 1,000 journal titles (including over 250 active subscriptions), and a multimedia collection. The library's collection focuses on economics and accounting, administration, mathematics, politics and international relations, history, communications, philosophy and art.

• Site Visit Report July-August 2001

• Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca Central da Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras
  Library director:           Márcia Elisa Garcia de Grandi   -   E-mail:   megrandi@usp.br
  Project Coordinator:    Márcia Elisa Garcia de Grande   -   E-mail:   megrandi@usp.br
  Address:                         Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes - Trav. 12 no.350, CEP: 05508-900, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP - Brasil
  Telephone:                     (0xx11) 3091-4847 / 3091-4504     -   Fax:  (0xx11) 3091-5037
  Web page:                      www.sbd.fflch.usp.br
  

  The Biblioteca Central of the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras is one of 39 libraries on the USP campus. Its mission is to promote the access, dissemination, and utilization of information as a means of support to teaching, research, and extension activities in the area of the Humanities.

• Site Visit Report June 2002

• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Biblioteca Central
  Library director:           Rejane Raffo Klaes   -   E-mail:   direcao@bc.ufrgs.br
  Project Coordinator:    Sonia Fiorin Falcetta   -   E-mail:   sonia@bc.ufrgs.br
  Address:                         Av. Paulo Gama, 110 - Reitoria, 90040-900 Porto Alegre, RS - Brasil
  Telephone:                     (55-51) 3316-3065     -   Fax:  (55-51) 3316-3984
  Web page:                      www.biblioteca.ufrgs.br
  

  The Biblioteca Central of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul is the main library of a Library System with 32 branch libraries. The UFRGS Library System has a collection of over 600,000 volumes, including 15,590 titles (5,921 active subscriptions), and a multimedia collection of over 340,000 items and a collection of over 10,000 rare books.

• Site Visit Report June 2002