School of Information Management & Systems
  Previously School of Library & Information Studies

 142 Access to American Cultural Heritages
 by Jacek Purat and Michael Buckland. buckland@sims.berkeley.edu

Cultural Heritage Sources

HISPANIC, CHICANO, LATINO SOURCES

(1)
Travel Document Systems
This Website provides good up-to-date entry information about all countries of the world.  Included are basic links to official country websites

(2)
Hispanic Reading Room, Library of Congress
Great resource to collections and links to Latin American cultures from the Library of Congress

(3)
Ethnic Groups and Culture, Library of Congress
Good guide to special ethnic collections at the Library of Congress

(4)
Chicano Studies Library, UC Berkeley
Specialized collection at Wheeler Hall

(5)
Libraries and Archives of Latin America
Gateway to amajor libraries of Latin America

(6)
Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources
Provides a convenient geographic compilation by country

(7)
Folklife Sourcebook
Directory of Folklife Resources of the United States

(8)
Museum and cultural heritage information standards resource guide
Great compilation of top current international cultural heritage projects.

(9)
Google Regional Web Directory: Caribbean
Google Regional Web Directory: Central America
Google Regional Web Directory: South America
Good access page to various countries pages catalogued by Google

(10)
Latin American Heritage
Some good Latino, Chicano web resources

(11)
La Raza
Major organization of Latinos in the United States

(12)
Chak: Chicano Humanities and Arts Council
Organization dedicated to propagation and preservation of Chicano/LatinoCulture

(13)
Chicano/Latino Resources. GSSI Research Guide. Note section on Databases and Indexes at end.
 

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