Benson Latin American Collection

Benson Latin American Collection
Sid Richardson Hall, home of the Benson Collection
LocationSid Richardson Hall, University of Texas at Austin
Established1921
Collection
Items collectedBooks, photographs, maps, audio
SizeOver 1 million books
Other information
AffiliationUniversity of Texas

The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is part of the University of Texas Library system in partnership with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS), located in Austin, Texas, and named for the historian and bibliographer, Nettie Lee Benson (1905-1993).[1] It is one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Latin American materials.[2]

The collections are housed in the Sid Richardson Hall, which also houses the Dolph Briscoe Center of American History[3] and Barker Texas History Collections Center.[4] This library serves LLILAS as a hub for studies pertaining to Latin American history and studies.[5] The library includes over 970,000 books, 19,000 maps, 93,500 photographs, 4,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 11,500 broadsides, and 50,000 items in other multimedia formats. Most of the sources are about Texas and Mexico, but also include items are also from the other Latin American countries, particularly: Central America, Chile, Peru, and Brazil.[6]

The Collection is the home of interviews collected by the Voces Oral History Center.[7]

  1. ^ Josefina Zoraida Vázquez, "Nettie Lee Benson (1905-1993)." Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 76, No. 2 (May 1996), pp. 313–316.
  2. ^ Laura Gutiérrez-Witt, "Nettie Lee Benson," Handbook of Texas Online, accessed June 16, 2016. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbene
  3. ^ Dolph Brisco Center of American History, http://www.cah.utexas.edu/index.php
  4. ^ Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collections Center, https://www.cah.utexas.edu/collections/texas_history.php
  5. ^ About the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/about Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ Benson Latin American Library Collections, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/collections Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ^ "VOCES Oral History Project | The University of Texas at Austin". voces.lib.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-20.