The Mexican American Library Program (MALP) of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas (UT) will celebrate its 30th anniversary during the fall of 2004. The staff is anticipating significant changes and evaluating the program's stated objectives and options for future directions. New and broader perspectives about ethnic identity are pressuring shifts in collection patterns for the Mexican American Library Program archives as well as in the documentation strategies for ethnic archives. The story of the Mexican American archives reflects student protests during the 1970s, the expanding historiography of Chicano and Latino Studies, and informs archival appraisal theory.
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