More Than 500,000 Books From Benson Latin American Collection (U. of Texas Libraries) Now Available via HathiTrust
From the University of Texas at Austin:
More than 500,000 books from the stacks of the Benson Latin American Collection, a trove of treasures related to Latin America, have been digitized and are now accessible online. The project is an extension of the University of Texas Libraries partnership with Google to digitize books and other literature to create a massive digital repository…The volumes related to Latin American culture and history have been added to the HathiTrust Digital Library to be fully searchable online.
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Learn More About the Benson Collection (via UT Libraries)
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