Chicano Collection

Location: Love Library, 1st Floor, Room 126
Hours (Same as the rest of the Library)

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The purpose of the Chicano Collection is to support the University's undergraduate teaching and research programs in Mexican American Studies and to serve as a multidisciplinary source of Chicano materials for general use. The Collection consists of books and pamphlets dealing with all aspects of Chicano life and culture, including materials on the city and county of San Diego and the Imperial County.

Resource Materials

• Key reference works dealing with Chicanos and Latinos
• Materials supportive of the Mexican American Studies program
• Materials on Mexico and Mexican culture of interest to Chicanos; also, bilingualism, race relations, and other Latinos
• A selected number of magazines and newspapers dealing with issues of interest to Chicano and Latino groups.

Using the Collection

Reference service is provided by librarians at the Research Assistance desk on the first floor of the Library Addition or by appointment with Cecilia Puerto. The Public Access Catalog (PAC) indexes the Library and the Collection's holdings.

In addition to the materials in the Collection, numerous books concerning Chicanos, Latinos, the Mexican-American border region, Mexico, Central America, and South America are shelved in the Library's general book stacks. Related periodicals may be found in the Current Periodicals and Microforms Center and the bound periodical stacks. Periodical indexes, including the Chicano Database, can be found in the General Reference Division.

Books can be checked out at the Circulation Desk on the first floor of the Library Addition. Pamphlets can be checked out at the Information Desk in the General Reference Division.

Tours of the Chicano Collection can be arranged with advance notice.

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