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ON-CAMPUS RESOURCES
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Pauline P. Collins
Latin American Collection
http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/latam/
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In the fall of 1996, the Latin American collection
at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library was named the Pauline P. Collins
Latin American Collection, in honor of Dr. Pauline P. Collins,
Bibliographer for Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies
at the University of Massachusetts from 1967 to 1996.
Today the Pauline P. Collins Latin American Collection
is the third-largest collection in New England (after Harvard
and Yale), and the largest in a public university library in
the Northeast of the United States. The Collection is particularly
strong in Argentine and Colombian materials, Spanish literature
and linguistics, and has hundreds of reels of microfilm of documents
from colonial Peru, the legacy of Dr. Lewis Hanke's tenure at
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Latin American Studies At The Five Colleges
http://www.umass.edu/5col_latam/index.html#history
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As Latin America assumes an increasingly
vital role in global affairs, an appreciation and knowledge
of its richly diverse cultures becomes more important
than ever. The study of Latin America at the Five Colleges
has a long and proud tradition, one that accounts for
its strong presence in the curriculum today. During
the past quarter century and more, Amherst, Hampshire,
Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges and the University
of Massachusetts have developed their own programs
of study, each characterized by a different emphasis.
The schools together have a concentration of more than
60 Latin Americanists, who actively collaborate in
a variety of ways to expand film and library holdings,
coordinate course offerings, and host visits by prominent
scholars and artists. Faculty representatives from
each campus serve as members of the Five College Latin
American Studies Council, which works to foster strong
ties among the campus programs and generates a lively
sense of community among scholars and students. On
the Council's recommendation, in 1991 the schools established
a Five College Certificate Program in Latin American
Studies designed to complement the various campus programs
and draw on the wealth of resources they offer singly
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