The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is part of the University of Texas Library system in partnership with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS), located in Austin, Texas, and named for the historian and bibliographer, Nettie Lee Benson (1905-1993).

[5] The library includes over 970,000 books, 19,000 maps, 93,500 photographs, 4,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 11,500 broadsides, and 50,000 items in other multimedia formats.

Most of the sources are about Texas and Mexico, but also include items are also from the other Latin American countries, particularly: Central America, Chile, Peru, and Brazil.

[9] Latin American historian Charles W. Hackett, along with three other University of Texas professors went to the 1920 inauguration of revolutionary General Álvaro Obregón as president of Mexico.

A huge addition to the library was the acquisition of virtually all the collection of Mexican historian Joaquín García Icazbalceta that deal with sixteenth-century Mexico.