The Digital Library of Latin American and Caribbean Sports (DLLACS)

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• Olympic World Library
  The Olympic World Library is a library maintain and supported by the Olympic Studies Centre, part of the International Olympic Committee. The IOC Olympic Studies is the world source of reference for Olympic knowledge and this library is simultaneously a library catalogue, an information portal and a search engine for Olympic knowledge. In particular, the Center holds valuable collections, including the IOC’s historical archives that offers over a kilometer of documents retracing the history of the IOC and the Olympic Movement from 1894 to the present day. It also provides access to 30,000 publications and 450 journals. The website is available in French and English. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• LA84 Sports Library and Digital Collection
  The LA84 Foundation maintains a traditional paper-based library as well as a growing digital library. Together, these collections cover all aspects of sports, with a particular emphasis on Olympic information. The LA84 Foundation was created with a share of the 1984 Olympic Games surplus and since 1985 has been supporting hundreds of non-profit youth sports organizations throughout Southern California annually, trains coaches, commissions research, convenes conferences and maintains the world’s premier Olympic and sports library collection. Although the interface is in English, the collection contains material originally published in other languages, such as French. The material is available in formats such as.pdf, .ps, .doc, .xls, .ppt, and .rtf. This resource has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.
• The H-Sport Archive Project: Latin American Collections
  This project from H-Sport compiles and annotates archival collections throughout the world relevant to the scholarly research about sports in Latin America and the Caribbean. While many sports museums and sports organizations are well-known to scholars in the field, the H-Sport Archive Project highlights sports collections held at non-sport archives. The collections highlighted on the website and updated by 2017 are originally published in English, Spanish, or Portugues. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library. The website "Archive Project: Latin American Collections" is open access. However, the museums, archives, libraries, or exhibitions the site highlights have their own access rights policies. Therefore, scholars interested in using the collections collected by the H-Sport should consult contact the archive directly regarding visiting the archive and any specific regulations pertaining to accessing the collections.