Latin American and Iberian Studies  Tags: latin_american_iberian_collections  

When checking the library catalog, use the term social movements. Searching that term with Latin America will yield a large return, but it's only a fractions of what's available. Remember that Latin America is made up of 20 countries. You can find even more by searching social movements and a country. If you know of a particular movement search it as a keyword.

Hello, I designed this page to help you access library resources (including databases and books, special collections and some cool web sources). I hope you'll find many of them interesting and helpful. To start I've included some feature books (to the left), useful database resources and special stuff (below). Please feel free to contact me (my contact info is to the right of this message) should you have any questions. I have office hours on Wednesday evening from 5-7 and Sunday evenings from 6-9 or by appointment. I look forward to working with you!  

One of the best places to find primary documentation of social movements in the library is on microfilm. Click on the Microform tab above to pull down a menu of microfilmed materials. For the purposes of this course, pay special attention to "Social Sciences Microforms" and "Human Rights and Civil Movements" microfoms, but check out the list to identify what's right for you. When you see something you'd like to look at click on it for information on its location. If it says "Click to page" do so, and make sure to enter your unm e-mail address so circulation can notify you when the film is ready.

Another great place to find primary documentation of social movements in manuscript collections in the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections.

Digital archives are the contemporary answer to microfilm. they're great because you can see primary documents from your computer screen, making documents available farther and wider.

Databases collect articles from thousands of individual books, journals, newspapers and magazines. Better yet, they organize those articles into "metadata" which you can search with keywords, author's names, titles, subjects etc. Since they're organized to collect only articles from reputable journals, newspapers and magazines -- you won't have to wade through a lot of individual or organizational web pages, which may or may not be useful.

If we don't have something here, look for it on WorldCat. We can get it through Inter-Library Loan (ILL). Check the Internet archive as well for free access to lots of electronically/digitally available resources ..

Bibliographic databases allow you to access what others have already done, which really helps with your historiography or literature review.  Check these out