Latin American Collection Concepts

Gayle Ann Williams is the Latin American and Caribbean Information Services Librarian/dLOC librarian at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. She also serves as the editor of SALALM’s Bibliography of Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographies. Jana Lee Krentz is the Curator for the Latin American, Iberian and Latinx Collections at Yale University Library. Her research concentration is the 19th and early 20th century Spanish, Brazilian and Portuguese novel, and neo-realism, as well as research education and area studies librarianship.

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Acknowledgments

Preface (Gayle Ann Williams and Jana Lee Krentz)

History of Collecting

From the Print to the Digital, Networked Era: Transformations in Latin

American Studies, Scholarly Communication and Latin American

Library Collecting and Collections (Sarah A. Buck Kachaluba)

Latin American Materials Project: Forty Years of Preserving Unique

Latin American Research Material (Judith Eckoff Alspach)

Current Strategies in Collection Development Changes and Continuities in the Mexican Academic Publishing Industry, 1980–2015: Reflections of a Book Vendor (S. Lief Adleson)

The Librarian’s Treasure Hunt: Acquisition Trips to Latin America

and the Caribbean (Peter Altekrueger and Ricarda Musser)

Independent Latin American Collections at U.S. Universities

Crescent City Connections to Latin America: A History of the Latin

American Library at Tulane University (Hortensia Calvo and Guillermo Náñez Falcón)

Collections as Collaborators: Documenting and Facilitating Inclusion,

Social Justice and Cultural Agency at the Benson Latin American

Collection (Julianne Gilland, Melissa Guy and Theresa E. Polk)

Over One Hundred Years of Collecting Latin Americana and Caribbeana at the University of Florida (Lara Lookabaugh, Paul S. Losch and Richard F. Phillips)

Collaborative Collecting Promoting and Maintaining Collaborative Collecting: A Case Study (Holly Ackerman and Teresa Chapa)

Building Shared Latin American and Iberian Research Collections:

2CUL as Case Study of an Enduring Collaborative Model

(Sean Patrick Knowlton and Sócrates Silva)

Collaborative Collection Development the Brazilian Way: The Brazil

BorrowDirect Program (Jana Lee Krentz)

A Case Study of ­Small-Scale Collaborative Approval Plans for Latin

American Collecting (Philip S. MacLeod and Laura D. Shedenhelm)

Collecting Collaborations (Lynn M. Shirey)

Latin America in Specialized Library Collections

Beyond Print: Developing Music Collections (Daisy Domínguez)

Collecting the Law of Latin America: History, Challenges and Trends

in U.S. Law Libraries (Julienne E. Grant and Teresa M. ­Miguel-Stearns)

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library: Bringing the

Community to the Academic Library (Sarah Aponte and Nelson Santana)

The Future of Collecting and New Technologies

Latin American and Caribbean Documentary Memory

in the Digital Age (Fernando ­Acosta-Rodríguez and Luis A. González)

Archiving the Latin American Web: A Call to Action (Pamela M. Graham and Kent Norsworthy)

Open Access in Latin America: Considerations for Collection Development and Management (Jennifer Osorio)

Nosotros: A Digitization Story Between a University Library and Its Latin American Community (Denis Lacroix)

About the Contributors

Index