Latin American Studies in Europe : Final Report and Working Papers Of

h AROlq ft / «RIGHAM ZuNG HY Po ii^n - '^ 3/rv PROVO, UTAH ?> LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES IN EUROPE Final Report and Working Papers of the Twenty-third Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials University of London London, England July 16-21, 1976 Anne H. Jordan, Editor SALALM Secretariat Austin, Texas 1979 Copyright 1979 by SALALM, Inc. HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY BRIGHAitt YCUKG UNIVERSITY PROVO, UTAH : i TABLE OF CONTENTS i Page Preface ix Introduction — William Vernon Jackson ... 1 PROGRAM AND RESOLUTIONS Program and Schedule of Activities 9 Resolutions 19 SUMMARY REPORTS OF THE SESSIONS Background to Latin American Studies in Europe : Three Views — Enid F. D'Oyley 25 Round Table on Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom — Mary Gormly 30 Round Table on Latin American Studies in Europe — Patricia de Haas 39 The Bodleian Library: An Introduction — Alan Moss 1*5 Latin Americana in Oxford Libraries : A Study in Collection Development — Marian Goslinga 50 The Arm of Spain: The Content Analysis of the Material Printed in Mexico and Peru in the Sixteenth Century — Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham 52 Library/Documentation Services for Latin American Studies Europe and U.S. Compared — Jan Herd 5^ Acquisition of Latin Americana from Latin America — A. G. Newell 59 Acquisition of Latin Americana from the United States and Canada — A. J. C. Bainton 61 Acquisition of Latin Americana from Europe — Gillian Shaw .... 63 Nonprint Materials for Latin American Studies : A State- of-the-Art Survey — María I. Cubas 68 Program of the Committee on Library Operations and Services — Ann E. Wade TO ANNUAL REPORTS TO SALALM Page A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies — Daniel Raposo Cordeiro 77 Microfilming Projects Newsletter No. 20 — Suzanne Hodgman 107 Library Activities in the Caribbean Area 1977/78 — Alma Jordan 115 National Library of Australia: Report for SALALM 23 121 WORKING PAPERS Background to Latin American Studies in Europe : Three Views Current Trends and Status of Latin American Studies in the United States — William P. Glade 125 Europe and Latin American Studies : A Synoptic View — Harold Blakemore 128 The Association of European Latin-Americanist Historians: Antecedents — Magnus Morner 1^3 Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom Latin American Studies at Oxford — D. C. M. Piatt 1^9 University of Cambridge: Latin American Studies at Cambridge — David Brading 152 Latin American Studies at the University of Essex — Simon Collier l60 University of Glasgow: Institute of Latin American Studies — Philip O'Brien 169 Centre for Latin American Studies: Liverpool University — C. T. Smith 176 Latin American Studies in the University of London — John Lynch l8l Latin American Studies in Europe The Latin American Institute in Berlin and Latin American Studies in West Germany — Wilhelm Stegmann 19^ , V Page Some Additional Notes to Latin American Studies in West Germany — Wolfgang Grenz 20U Latin American Studies in Scandinavia — Roland Anrup 207 Los Estudios latinoamericanos en España — Carmelo Sáenz de Santa María 216 Latin American Studies in the Netherlands — Kees den Boer .... 223 Department of Caribbean Studies , Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology 230 Libraries and Printing: A Day at Oxford The Bodleian Library: An Introduction — R. J. Roberts 239 Latin Americana in Oxford Libraries: A Study in Collection Development — R. A. McNeil 2U2 The Arm of Spain: The Content Analysis of the Material Printed in Mexico and Peru in the Sixteenth Century — Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham 2^9 Library/Documentation Services for Latin American Studies: Europe and U.S. Compared Bibliographic Activities of the Library of Congress Relating to Latin America — Mary Ellis Kahler 28l Hispanic Book Selection in the Department of Printed Books British Library ~ H. G. Whitehead 30U Une Approche des fonds latino-americains de la Bibliotheque Nationale en 1978 — Marie-Thérése Jiptner 311 The Venezuela Project — John P. McGowan 31^ PPENDICES Biographical Information about the Authors 335 SALALM Meetings: Location, Dates, and Topics considered 338 Officers and Membership of SALALM, 1968/69 - 1977/78 3^3 vil DEDICATION The Final Report of the SALALM XXIII Conference held in London, England in July 1978 is dedicated in loving memory of Maria Elena Capel of Buenos Aires , Argentina vho died on Octo- ber 6, 19T&. A biographical sketch of Ms. Capel' s career and contributions to bookselling and librarianship appeared in the December 1978/March 1979 issue of the SALALM Newsletter. ix PREFACE The Twenty-third Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials was made possible by a generous grant from The Tinker Foundation. The Steering Committee consisted of Harold Blakemore (chairman), Brigid M. Harrington (convenor), Toby Bainton, Alan Biggins, Julia Garlant, George H. Green, Laurence Hallewell, Elisabeth Long, Robert McNeil, Anthony Newell, Pat- ricia Noble, Robin Price, Leslie J. Thomas, Harold G. Whitehead, and Gillian E. Shaw (secretary). Coordinators for XXIII SALALM were Anne H. Jordan, executive secretary; Alice C. Keefer, ad hoc assistant to the executive secretary; Brigid M. Harrington, local arrangements chairman; and Harold Blakemore, ad hoc fiscal officer. SALALM wishes to express its gratitude for the contributions of these and many other hard working British colleagues who made this first European conference a worthwhile reality. Anne H. Jordan Executive Secretary, SALALM Austin, June, 1979 INTRODUCTION William Vernon Jackson When SALALM accepted the University of London's invitation to hold its twenty-third meeting in the United Kingdom, the question of an appropriate theme immediately became a topic for careful consideration. SALALM' s two preceding conferences, at Bloomington and at Gainesville, had centered respectively on "Twenty Years of Latin American Librarianship" and "The Multifaceted Role of the Latin American Subject Specialist," while at the most recent meeting outside the United States (Bogota', 1975) the theme was "New Writers of Latin America." Realizing that for the first conference outside of the Western Hemisphere the most appealing theme (a comparison of Latin American studies in the United States and Europe) was probably not feasible for reasons of lead time and logistics that might be involved (e.g., for jointly-prepared papers), SALALM settled more modestly for "Latin American Studies in Europe" as the focus. As host country, the United King- dom would naturally receive special emphasis. While the primary concern of the conference was thus with the general aspects of Latin American studies, we did expect some presentations to deal specifically with library and bibliographical matters. In his paper Harold Blakemore was to say, "one is always struck at international gatherings by one's own ignorance of work in other countries, and by ignorance of one's European rand American] colleagues of what is being done here." The conference planners hoped that the sessions would clear away at least some of this kind of ignorance. This goal had of course to take practical form: fitting a framework which allowed five plenary sessions (four in London and one in Oxford) and thus imposed limitations on the number of papers. There were disappoint- ments too: not all persons found it possible to accept the invitation to prepare papers, and time did not always allow authors to obtain all the information they sought. Nevertheless, the twenty-two papers published here offer a wide-ranging and informative panorama of Latin American studies in a number of European countries. Because the conference hoped to stimulate better understanding of both the present status of and the prospects for Latin American studies, the three opening papers provide some general background information. As a basis for comparing and contrasting the subsequent reports on the situation in Europe, William P. Glade lists his reasons for taking an optimistic view of Latin American studies in the U.S.A., despite the declining financial support in evidence for the past decade. (One might point out that he includes among them the great improvement in library resources which has taken place.) Harold Blakemore reviews the possible causes of the European "re-discovery of Latin America " in the 1960 's and devotes a portion of his paper to European cooperation, with special mention of the accomplishments and potential of the Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales sobre America Latina (CEISAL) as a foundation for "the creation of a European network of scholarly concern for Latin America." He also mentions the possibility of extending the exchange of bibliographical information which already exists among such centers as London, Hamburg, and Amsterdam in order to "facilitate the flow of information to scholars particularly on current bibliography in their specialist fields." In the next paper Magnus Morner traces the successive meetings (Santander, 1969; Seville, 1970; Paris, 1972; Cologne/Bonn, 1975; and Torun, 1978) of historians, which culminated less than two months prior to the London conference in the formation of the Association of European Latin Americanist Historians (AHILA) . Allowing for obvious differences because of its multi-national dimensions, embracing countries in both Eastern and Western Europe, the organization nevertheless invites comparison with the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) in the U.S.A. The second plenary session considered Latin American studies in the United Kingdom, with reports from six universities—

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