UCSD's Special Collections and Archives (SC&A) materials are cataloged in UC Library Search and finding aids for manuscript collections are available on the SC&A website, along with policies and more information. All SC&A materials are stored in an environmentally controlled, secured area and all users must register and place requests to see the materials. If the items are located onsite, we will pull on demand when you arrive at the library. Keep an eye out for materials that are located offsite (it will say so in UC Library Search), as delivery times for these items may be up to a week.
Encompassing UC San Diego's Mandeville Special Collections and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, UCSD's Special Collections & Archives houses a wide range of rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, artworks, recordings, and archives. These primary source materials support UCSD's instructional and research programs, and distinguish UCSD's library collections from all other research universities. These special collections include significant holdings related to Latin America. See especially the:
Latin American content can also be found in:
Digitization has made many of UCSD’s special collections more widely accessible through UCSD Digital Collections.
Digital Collections with Latin American or Latino/Hispanic-American content include:
American Friends Service Committee – U.S.-Mexico Border Program Records: Selections (Redacted abuse and complaint files from the records of the American Friends Service Committee – U.S.-Mexico Border Program, 1977-2001)
The Internet Archive has a Way-Back Machine that preserves old websites so that they can be consulted even after they are no longer live on the internet. The Archive contains a Collection of UCSD Materials, which has the following Latin American content:
The Mexican Presidential Election 2012 Archive, which preserves various iterations of the webpages of seven Mexican political parties leading up to and immediately following inauguration of president Enrique Peña Nieto, on Dec. 1, 2012.
The Venezuelan Elections 2012 Archive which preserves various iterations of the webpages of four Venezuelan political parties leading up to and immediately following gthe scheduled inauguration of the incumbent president Hugo Chávez on Jan. 10, 2013.
UCSD's Latin American Election Statistics: A Guide to Resources
Electronic resource created by Karen Lindvall-Larson, now retired Latin American Studies Librarian at UC San Diego. Consists of a series of volumes on selected Latin American countries that provide chronologies of elections since independence at the municipal, state, and federal levels and list sources of statistics for each election as identified.