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SPAN 260: Introduction to Spanish and Spanish American Literature: Home

Collection Description

The Latin American and Iberian collections of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill support the broad range of research needs of Carolina's faculty and students in these world areas. Our holdings of over 500,000 volumes are primarily held in the Walter Royal Davis Library, the central library for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  The strenghth of the collections complement the research interests of the many graduate programs in the humanities and social sciences.  In addition to acquiring materials in Spanish and Portuguese, our collections include volumes in several of the Maya languages, Guaraní, Galician, Catalán and Haitian Creole, among others.

Based on a long-standing cooperative agreement with Duke Univerity, UNC-Chapel Hll collects core materials from all Latin American countries, as well as research-level materials from Argentina, Brazil (humanities and literature), Chile, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.

UNC Catalog Search

Subject searching for books in the Library's catalog is often best done by beginning with a Keyword Search . Start with a Keyword Search and identify one or more relevant books. Then look at the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) given in the Full Records of those titles. You can follow the subject heading links in the catalog to find similar books, or you can use the terms in the subject headings to revise your search strategies.

Keyword Search: latin american literature encyclopedias

Search by LC Subject Heading: Latin American literature--Encyclopedias

Keyword Search: spain civil war novel

Search by LC Subject Heading: Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 ; Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Literature and the war

Search for books by a literary author with an Author search; search for books about a literary author with a Subject search.

Author: Rita Indiana

Subject: Rita Indiana

Call Numbers in Davis Library

Use this Location Guide to find books in Davis.

The exact ranges of call numbers on each floor will fluctuate during Spring 2024, as staff work on a shifting project.

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Interlibrary Loan

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