1
2
3
4
5
The CSRC Library is pleased to host to an exhibition of artworks from students' final projects for CCAS 113: Day of the Dead Ritual & Visual Culture, taught by Gaby R. Gomez in Summer Session C, 2024. On view through December 13!
Vanessa Esperanza Quintero, library and information science student and CSRC Latina Futures graduate fellow, writes about her discoveries while working with the Laura Esquival Papers at the CSRC.
Google Arts & Culture is now hosting the online exhibition Corky Gonzales: Always Fighting, curated by Grace Muñoz, a graduate student researcher at the CSRC in 2020-21. 
The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center is launching a three-year project that will reflect the role of faith, spirituality and religion in Mexican American culture.
Rotating exhibitions drawn from CSRC collections are on display inside the library and in the vitrine at the entrance.

Library

Established in 1969, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library was the first library in the United States to focus on the Mexican-descent population. Today, the CSRC Library is considered to hold among the most important national and international research collections in existence on the Chicana and Chicano experience. It continues to serve the needs of students and faculty at UCLA and around the world. In 2012, the CSRC's "significant achievements in activism, education, outreach, publication, and service on pressing issues facing the Chicano and Latino communities" garnered it the first-ever Diversity Award from the Society of American Archivists.

The Library's holdings consist of monographs, periodicals, subject files, dissertations and theses, as well as original prints by Chicana/o artists, films, videotapes, audio recordings, slides, and over 160 archival and manuscript collections. Of special note are holdings of monolingual and bilingual English and Spanish newspapers and journals published throughout the southwestern U.S. from the nineteenth century onward. The UCLA Library Research Guide for the CSRC provides more information.

If you wish to access one of our special collections, please submit an Archival Research Application before you visit so that we may retrieve your materials in advance. If you are interested in reproducing library materials for publication or broadcast, please visit the Services page for instructions and forms.  Please note: CSRC Library materials may not be checked out. They may be used in the Library, and most may be photocopied.

LIBRARY HOURS

General library services: Mon. - Thur., 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Closed Fridays.
 
The library will be closed December 16, 2024 - January 5, 2025.
 
Archival research visits are available by appointment only.
 
To schedule a research consultation: https://calendly.com/csrclib/ref-appt
 
 
144 Haines Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1544
 

 


 

 

COMMUNITY TOURS

Are you an instructor who would like to bring students to the CSRC Library? Contact us to schedule a group tour.

SUPPORT THE LIBRARY

The CSRC Library is committed to housing materials that highlight the rich and diverse past and contemporary cultures of people of Mexican descent. If you are interested in donating a collection or making a financial gift, please contact us. Find out more.