Australian Manuscript Sources and Programs for the Study of the History of Latin America

A Vital Interest in the Affairs of Latin America has Grown Recently in Australia. There, in that land “in back of the beyond,” professors are offering new programs of Latin American Studies while their librarian counterparts have strengthened their holdings through active participation in the Latin American Cooperative Acquisition Program (LACAP) and in the Seminars on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). The move of Claudio Véliz from the Universidad de Chile to the Chair of the Department of Sociology, La Trobe University (Bundoora, Victoria), will stimulate further the development of Latin American Studies in the Antipodes, while the resurgence of trans-Pacific sailings during the past decade is attracting the interest of the Australians to the nations across the Pacific. It is worth noting that last year Professor Gilbert Butland of the University of New England, Armidale (New South Wales) published a general study entitled The Other Side of the Pacific: Problems of Latin America (Sydney, 1972).