"Presents a detailed data on approximately 5,500 Latin American newspapers in libraries of the United States, providing a firm base for individual research and at the same time establishing a necessary factual foundation for possible future cooperative plans among libraries to develop further the national resource of Latin American newspapers"--Preface

This book, first published in 1983, is a practical resource for standardized union catalogues of serials that gives useful guidance on the components in the preparation and production of a union catalogue of serials, the administrative machinery required to bring each project to fruition, and the interface with other serials control systems and other information networks.