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Teresa Chapa

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Davis Library Global Resources & Area Studies

Subjects: American Indian Studies, Latin American History, Latin American Studies, Latina/o Studies, Portuguese, Romance Studies, Spanish

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 Walter Royal Davis Library, the central library for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The strength of the collections complements 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, Basque and Haitian Creole, among others.

Based on a long-standing cooperative agreement with Duke Univerity, UNC-Chapel Hill 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.

Interlibrary Loan

Course Reserves

Scholarly Communications Services

The Scholarly Communications department designs and implements a program that will position the University Libraries to take full advantage of and contribute to the evolution of scholarly publishing practices within the academy. They provide guidance, policy development, and advocacy to faculty, students, and staff on the following issues:

Copyright and fair use
Authors' rights
Privacy rights
Open access
Other information policy issues important to the creation and use of scholarly material

Learn more about Scholarly Communications Services at University Libraries.

Digital Repository Services

Mission

The Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) is the institutional repository for material in electronic formats produced by members of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill community. Its chief purpose is to provide for the long-term preservation of such materials. By preservation we mean the ability to ingest the material, index and search it, replicate it, and keep it safe from alteration.

Services

Work with UNC faculty, students and staff regarding the deposit of material into the CDR
Consultation regarding metadata creation with depositors and the generation of collection-level metadata for deposited collections
Guided and managed referrals to other University Libraries services, UNC campus services and discipline-specific repositories

Citing

MLA Style 9th edition

The Modern Languages Association (MLA) style is commonly used for citing references in humanities courses.

This guide is based on the MLA Handbook (9th ed.), published in 2021.Visit the MLA Style Center Website for more information.

Library Data Services

Library Data Services cater to researchers interested in working with data, mapping, texts, visualization, and technology. Many of these services are available online. Davis Library Data Services, located on the second floor of Davis Library, offers:

A computing lab with specialized software for GIS and data visualization & analysis.
Walk-in assistance provided by knowledgeable student consultants during set hours.
Consultations with specialists for more in-depth inquiries (by appointment).
Spaces for collaboration and presentation, complete with white boards and external displays.
Technology short courses and programs that promote digital scholarship. .