About

Welcome to LACLI, an international collaboration to create a repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies! LACLI is an essential tool to find websites that provide access to a great variety of resources such as audiovisual materials, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives and more!

LACLI is managed by the Latin America Northeast Libraries Network (LANE), a network of library professionals representing academic and research libraries mainly in the Northeastern United States. LANE is a regional affinity group with ties to the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM).

History

LACLI was established during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown to provide emergency support for online teaching, learning, and research. We aim to facilitate the discoverability and visibility of free online resources that cover the history, social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. It serves as a useful tool for students, teaching faculty, librarians, and digital scholars of Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies.

International Dimension

LACLI is an international collaborative effort aimed at sharing digital resource collections on Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian research across borders. In October 2020, La Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas at El Colegio de México became a collaborating institution, and in April 2022, the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (CPDOC) at Fundação Getulio Vargas joined the initiative. Their contributions have expanded LACLI's multilingual access capabilities in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Acknowledgements & Recognitions

We extend our gratitude to Judith Alspach and James Simon from the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) for sharing the data that helped start this project and Orchid Mazurkiewicz for authorizing us to adapt the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) subjects list.

In 2022, LANE, La Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas de El Colegio de México, and the Fundação Getulio Vargas Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (CPDOC) were recognized with the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) Award for Institutional Collaborative Initiatives for their work to expand multilingual access to LACLI resources by adding metadata in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Use Our Data

LACLI is licensed under under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. LACLI emerged from an identified need for a place to share and reuse data to create tailored research support content (e.g. subject guides, pedagogical guides).

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