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The Latin American Resource Center's Lending Library maintains the most comprehensive lending collection of educational materials about Latin American topics available for classroom use.  The library holds over 3,000 videos, slide packets, culture kits, curriculum units, games, and miscellaneous print items and adds new ones every year. 

These items are available for free loan (except for the cost of return postage) to any instructor in the United States.  The entire collection can be searched by, title, theme, or keyword here at our on-line catalogue.  

Before borrowing, you must download, fill out, and fax or mail back our User's Agreement Form; familiarize yourself with our Standard or Tulane/Loyola Borrowing Policies. Once we have received your completed User's Agreement, we will send you an email stating that you may now begin using the Lending Library. Please submit your form via our on-line request form. Emailed requests are not preferred.

Please be aware that all standard (non-Tulane/Loyola) request must be received at least three weeks before your intended showdate for the materials and all Tulane/Loyola requests at least seven days before hand.  

Obligations of all LARC Lending Library Patrons

It is imperative that LARC Patrons read and understand the copyright issues associated with borrowing items from LARC's Lending Library. As a library and archive, we are within the legal scope of copyright laws to loan films for research and face-to-face viewing within an educational setting only. Please read the following from the Copyright Law of America:

110. Limitations on exclusive rights: Exemption of certain performances and displays41

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, the following are not infringements of copyright:

(1) performance or display of a work by instructors or pupils in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction, unless, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, the performance, or the display of individual images, is given by means of a copy that was not lawfully made under this title, and that the person responsible for the performance knew or had reason to believe was not lawfully made;

For more information please visit:

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Copyright Law of the United States of America

Latin American Resource Center
Tulane University
100 Jones Hall
New Orleans LA 70118

ph: (504) 862-3143;  fx:(504) 865-6719; crcrts@tulane.edu

Please report updates to
Denise Woltering