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About the Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
The Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly monographs,
journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and
electronic resources dealing with Latin America. The multidisciplinary
Handbook, edited by the Hispanic
Division of the Library of Congress, alternates annually
between the social sciences and the humanities. Disciplines
covered include anthropology (including archaeology and
ethnology), art, economics, electronic resources (beginning
in 1995), geography, government and politics, history,
international relations, literature, music, philosophy,
and sociology. The Handbook's 130 Contributing
Editors, scholars based in the US and abroad, review and
provide annotations for over 5000 works per year. The
version of the Handbook available through
the Library of Congress Online Catalog covers only Volume
50 to the present. The complete database (Vols. 1-60,
1936-2002) may be searched online at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/hlashome.html,
including some forthcoming volumes in the preliminary
editorial stage. Printed volumes of the Handbook are also
available in the Hispanic
Reading Room and the Main
Reading Room of the Library of Congress under the
call number Z1605.H23.
HLAS records generally contain annotations
and additional subjects not found on records for those
works in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. However,
HLAS records do not show Library
of Congress holdings information or call numbers. Such
information may be obtained by searching for the title
of the monograph or of the journal (not the title of
the article in the journal) in the Library of Congress
Online Catalog. A complete list of journal title abbreviations
and their corresponding full titles may be found on
the HLAS Online web site at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/journals.html.
For further information on the Handbook
and HLAS records, please see the HLAS Online
help pages at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/help.html.
Please note that some works annotated in the Handbook
and included in the database are not part of the LC
collections. We recommend that you ask a reference librarian
for help in locating copies of these works at another
institution.
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