The Benson Latin American Collection covers Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean as well as areas of the United States when they were part of the Spanish Empire or Mexico. All subjects pertaining to the area are included from fine arts and humanities, social and natural sciences, to history of science and technology, although the humanities and social sciences are the strongest areas. In the general collection, the greatest depth is in Mexican, Central American and Southern Cone publications. Brazilian and Andean holdings are very strong, especially in 20th-century imprints.
Caribbean holdings are also strong, but less complete than materials in other areas.
New CD-ROM bibliographic, informational and statistical databases are selectively but regularly acquired and are available for use at the Benson Collection. The University of Texas at Austin.