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Keith Manuel

Black History Month: Latin American and Caribbean Heritage

The new LACC display “Black History Month: Latin American and Caribbean Heritage” is now installed opposite the circulation desk. LACC has a wealth of resources related to, and created by, people of African descent, particularly in the Caribbean and Brazil but also in every country in the Americas. This…

Welcome Patrick James!

Welcome our new staff member Patrick James to LACC! To learn more about Patrick, read our latest blog post.

Banned Books Week 2021!

LACC has a lot of books that have been banned, censured, or otherwise challenged, in Latin America as much as in the US.

The Gay Freedom Movement of Jamaica

Founded in 1977, the Gay Freedom Movement of Jamaica published a newsletter and provided a gay youth program, prison outreach program, and free STD clinic to the gay community in Jamaica. GYM General Secretary Larry Chang also edited and published a newsletter, the Jamaica Gaily News, from 1977 to…

Paul Losch named LC Field Director, Rio de Janeiro

          Congratulations to former LACC Librarian Paul Losch on his appointment as Field Director of the Library of Congress Overseas Operations Office in Rio de Janeiro! Read more in this interview with the Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room about his…

The Jewish Diaspora Collection

The Jewish Diaspora Collection (JDoC) is a collaborative and cooperative digital library designed to preserve and provide wide access to Jewish heritage materials from Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Modeled on the Digital Library of the Caribbean, JDoC provides a host site and portal for digitized versions…

The Album de Viaje of Eusebio Guiteras (1842-1845)

  Image Gallery Nineteen-year-old Eusebio Guiteras left Matanzas, Cuba, in 1842 for a three-year tour visiting the US, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire, including Istanbul, the Egyptian pyramids, & Jerusalem. His travel journals are a unique source of observations and the connections that a young Cuban aristocrat…

Virtual Tour of UF Libraries

UF Admissions recently created a virtual tour of the UF Libraries for potential students and anyone else who wants to see our spaces and the people who work there! Watch the embedded video above for more information.