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 our new staff member Patrick James to LACC! To learn more about Patrick, read our latest blog post.
LACC has a lot of books that have been banned, censured, or otherwise challenged, in Latin America as much as in the US.
Come check out our New Book Shelf for books on women in Brazil!
With international soccer competitions reaching their final stages this week, LACC would like to share a display with some of its material that relate to the world’s most popular sport. Our display is currently placed in the front of our reference desk, located in the 3rd floor of the Smathers…
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…
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 (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 LACC reading room is open Mondays through Fridays, and our book pickup service is continuing through Summer A.
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…
