Book Review: A Library for the Americas: The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection by Julianne Gilland and José Montelongo

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Book Review| April 02 2019 Book Review: A Library for the Americas: The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection by Julianne Gilland and José Montelongo A Library for the Americas: The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, by Julianne Gilland and José Montelongo. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. 232 pp., 192 color and 4 b/w illus. $50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-1511-8. Reviewed by Rosario Inés Granados. Rosario Inés Granados Rosario Inés Granados 1Blanton Museum of Art Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2019) 1 (2): 139–140. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2019.120011 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rosario Inés Granados; Book Review: A Library for the Americas: The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection by Julianne Gilland and José Montelongo. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 2 April 2019; 1 (2): 139–140. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2019.120011 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections has called A Library for the Americas“a love letter to the library,” and I could not agree more. This long-overdue publication fondly celebrates the history and vastness of one of the world’s most important libraries dedicated to Latin American materials, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection housed at the University of Texas at Austin. The volume includes eight scholarly remembrances by professors of history or art history active in US institutions, all demonstrating deep appreciation for a collection that shaped their scholarly lives. Their essays are written in personal tones that provide relevant insights on their individual intellectual journeys. Barbara Mundy, for instance, recalls that during long solo hours spent examining the late sixteenth-century Mapas de las relaciones geográficas for her first book, she never felt actually alone because she was engaged in “a constant conversation with the works and... You do not currently have access to this content.