page_title: Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños
section_title: Library and archive
hierarchical_section_title: Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños / Library and archive
caption_attribution_description: English: The Centro Library at the Lois V. and Samuel J. Silberman Building in East Harlem.
context_page_description: El Centro, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies or Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, is a university-based research institute whose mission is to produce, facilitate, and disseminate interdisciplinary research about the experiences of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. and to collect, preserve, and provide access to archival and library resources documenting the history and culture of Puerto Ricans. To complement these core activities, Centro sponsors a year-round program of educational and cultural activities.
context_section_description: The Centro Library and Archives is devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the history and culture of Puerto Ricans. Located at the Lois V. and Samuel J. Silberman Building in East Harlem, the collections include books, newspapers, periodicals, audio and video tapes, manuscripts, photographs, prints and recorded music. The Library and Archives provides services and programs to the scholarly community as well as the general public. It facilitates access to its holdings through mail and telephone services, City University's online public catalog CUNY+, participation in national databases and through the publication of finding aids. The Library and Archives promote the study of Puerto Rican history and culture through exhibitions and other public programs.
  The Library and Archives collects, preserves, and makes available for research unique primary materials that document the history and culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora with a concentration on New York City. The holdings include personal papers, records of organizations and institutions, photographic collections, broadsides, programs, and ephemera. Among the collections are the records of civil rights organizations, the papers of activists, writers, artists, scholars, educators, and elected officials. A highlight of the holdings is the extensive records of the offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the U.S. Special features of the Archives include its photographic holdings, art prints/posters by artists from New York and Puerto Rico and sound recordings of Puerto Rican popular music. Finding aids and guides are available for processed collections and are online on the Centro Web site.
caption: The Centro Library at the Lois V. and Samuel J. Silberman Building in East Harlem.
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