In the 1960s, Bar­bara Hadley Stein, the University’s first Bib­li­og­ra­pher for Latin Amer­ica, Spain and Por­tu­gal (1966–1977), began inten­sively col­lect­ing ephemera to doc­u­ment some of the major polit­i­cal devel­op­ments of the period, includ­ing the rise to power of mil­i­tary dic­ta­tor­ships, coup d’états, the insti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of the Cuban Rev­o­lu­tion, and the pop­u­lar responses to those devel­op­ments. Her suc­ces­sor, Peter T. John­son (1977–2003), expanded the geo­graphic and the­matic scope of the col­lec­tions and sys­tem­atized the process of orga­niz­ing, cat­a­loging, and pre­serv­ing them. Inten­sive col­lect­ing in this area con­tin­ues to this date, and Fer­nando Acosta-Rodríguez, cur­rent Librar­ian for Latin Amer­i­can, Iber­ian and Latino Stud­ies, has recently pub­lished a com­pre­hen­sive LibGuide to the collections:

http://libguides.princeton.edu/laec

The guide lists, by coun­try and sub­ject area, all of the col­lec­tions of Latin Amer­i­can ephemera that the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library has devel­oped since the late 1960s (approx­i­mately 350 col­lec­tions). A cor­re­spond­ing call num­ber is pro­vided for each col­lec­tion, as well as links to find­ing aids or to cat­a­log records that for the most part describe in con­sid­er­able detail the con­tents of the collections.

Those seek­ing fur­ther assis­tance and infor­ma­tion to this abun­dant col­lec­tion can reach Fer­nando Acosta-Rodríguez at facosta@princeton.edu or 609–258-3193.