The collections also support the research and teaching of students and scholars in Romance Studies and the Latin American Studies Program. Spanish history collections are stronger than their Portuguese counterparts.
Periodical literature concentrates on national, rather than regional, historical journals.
While representative works in Iberian history are collected across the board, current collecting has followed the recent florescence in the early modern and post Franco and Salazar periods. History of Spain and Portugal. As used here Iberia refers principally to the European nations of Spain and Portugal and secondarily to the Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires.