Over the past five years, much attention has been paid to enhancing the Latin American literature collection. Current collecting is now more balanced between Latin American and Peninsular literatures. Latin American folk culture is an additional important collecting area. Translations of literary works from Spanish into English have been purchased on the Romance Languages fund in the past, but this will generally not be done in the future. Basic individual texts, grammars, or dictionaries in Catalan or Portuguese are collected on a very selective basis.
Emphasis is on publications from Latin America and Spain.
English language criticism published in the U.S. and UK is actively collected. Microform reprint editions are acquired on a highly selective basis. Rare or valuable early editions are acquired only as gifts. Modern, definitive critical editions are acquired for major authors. Historical and biographical works that concern the lives of major and minor literary figures are acquired.