page_title: Center for Latin American Studies – University of Pittsburgh
section_title: Eduardo Lozano Latin American Library Collection
hierarchical_section_title: Center for Latin American Studies – University of Pittsburgh / Eduardo Lozano Latin American Library Collection
caption_attribution_description: English: The Latin American Reading Room housing the Eduardo Lozano Latin American Collection in the Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh was designed by Peruvian native Victor Beeltran of L.D. Astorino &amp; Associates to be reminiscent of a Spanish courtyard
context_page_description: The University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Latin American Studies, commonly known as CLAS, is a National Resource Center on Latin America. The Center, founded in 1964 as part of the university's Center for International Studies, offers undergraduate and graduate students multidisciplinary training on Latin American and Caribbean studies.
context_section_description: The collection was created and primarily built by Eduardo Lozano, a librarian, artist, poet, and author from Argentina who directed the Latin American Library from its creation until his death in 2006. Needing an organized resource center for CLAS, and with the help of Henry Hillman’s donation to the University for the new Hillman Library, Cole Blasier hired Lozano to establish a Latin American library collection in 1967. Lozano  traveled annually throughout Latin America to buy books directly from the source.
  The collection was officially named the "Eduardo Lozano Latin American Library Collection" by the university in 1997 and today is the eighth largest collection of Latin American resource materials in the United States and includes over 500,000 volumes, 12,000 periodical titles, 110,000 reels of microfilms, 540 films and video recordings, and 630 sound recordings. More than 85% of the volumes are in Spanish or Portuguese and the collection's resources on Bolivia and Cuba are considered some of the world's best. Over 400 libraries, research centers, universities, and governmental departments based in various locations around the world maintain exchange agreements with the collection. In 2002, a Latin American inspired reading room, housing a portion of the Lozano Collection, was dedicated in the university's Hillman Library. Composed of arches and columns with windows on three sides, the room was designed by Peruvian-American architect Victor Beltran to be reminiscent of a Spanish courtyard.
caption: The Collection's Latin American Reading Room in Hillman Library
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