Research and teaching organisation.
Library contains some 12,000 publications and 1560 serials (260 current). Library catalogue is available as part of the School of Advanced Studies catalogue. Includes post-1990 acquisitions, most periodical titles and all monographs.
Also holds the British Union Catalogue of Latin Americana (BUCLA) a card catalogue of UK holdings on Latin America (from 1966, closed in 1988, list some 204,000 titles): see separate entry for more details.