Latin Americana Collection news
Voices from Latin America can be found in dynamic ASU research collection
Rebellious nuns. Punk artists. Ecofeminist criticism through the lens of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian peoples. These are all voices of a rich, cultural mosaic. And they’re all in one archive at the Arizona State University Library. The Latin Americana Collection is expansive, eclectic and transdi...
Honoring the legacy of David William Foster and Latin American scholarship
The legacy of renowned ASU professor and Latin American scholar David William Foster will be celebrated with an upcoming lecture and a new collection coming soon to the ASU Library. The ASU Library received a donation of 4,000 books and papers from Foster’s personal collections. This donation crea...
Current Exhibit: “Sharing Knowledge: 20th-Century Reproductions of the ‘Codex Tonindeye’”
“Sharing Knowledge: 20th-Century Reproductions of the ‘Codex Tonindeye’” is on display at the Design and the Arts Library from March 22, 2023, until May 4, 2023. The Design and the Arts Library library is open to the public from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Monday to Friday. You a...
Welcome to the Open Collections Curation and Access Blog!
Welcome to the new blog from the ASU Library Open Collections Curation and Access (OCCA) department! Over the coming months, you can expect to see updates from librarians, archivists, and staff who provide services that connect you with ASU Library’s millions of locally curated resources in print an...
Workshop offers students the opportunity to study rare documents from New Spain
On a cold and rainy spring Chicago day, students inside the famed Newberry Library accessed an array of rare manuscripts and materials for study and discussion. The workshop, titled “New Spain at the Newberry Library: Demystifying Colonial Documents from the Ayer Collection,” took place April 22 a...
ASU's Archival Collections Highlight Histories of Latine and Chicano History
ASU has been taking steps in showcasing historically marginalized voices from the Latine and Chicano communities. When Seonaid Valiant, curator for Latin American Studies at the ASU Library, started at ASU, the collection only had one manuscript. Now, there are books on magic, biology, art, politi...
Current exhibit through January 18: Shoestring Productions: Brazilian Storytelling through Contemporary Woodcuts, Artists’ Books, and Small Press Books (1997-2021)
In the exhibit Shoestring Productions: Brazilian Storytelling through Contemporary Woodcuts, Artists’ Books and Small Press Books (1997-2021), the Arizona State University Library is highlighting a small part of its collection of woodcuts, artists’ books and small press books, to feature the work of...
Sichuan University Library Exchange
Seonaid Valiant, Ph.D., MLIS, Curator for Latin American Studies, ASU Library. In September 2019 I traveled to Chengdu, China representing Arizona State University (ASU) Library in the Sichuan University Libraries Exchange program. ...
Four ASU Students Travel Back in Time Through Archives at a Chicago Library
Instead of spending their spring break on a beach, four ASU students dove deep into a sea of archives at the Newberry Library in Chicago to take their unique research to the next level. Seonaid Valiant, the curator for Latin American Studies at the ASU Library who was a former librarian at Newberry...