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{{Short description|Library in Mexico City, Mexico}}
{{Infobox library
| name = Francisco Xavier Clavijero Library
| native_name = Biblioteca Francisco Javier Clavigero
| native_name_lang = Spanish
| country = Mexico
| type = [[academic library]]
| established = 1943
| location = 
| coordinates = {{Coord|19.3711022|-99.2639094}}
| parent_organization = [[Universidad Iberoamericana]]
| website = https://www.bib.ibero.mx/site/
}}

The '''Francisco Xavier Clavigero Library''' ({{langx|es|'''Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero'''}}) is the [[library]] of the [[Universidad Iberoamericana]]. It is the largest library owned by a private university in [[Mexico]]. It was created in 1943 and is located in the [[Mexico City]] neighborhood of Santa Fé.

This library holds almost a quarter of a million volumes (249,710 {{As of|2004|lc=on}}) and is named after [[Clavijero|Francisco Xavier Clavigero]] (1731&ndash;1787), a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] who was forced into exile in [[Bologna]], [[Italy]] when the [[Bourbon Reforms]] of the Spanish crown expelled the Jesuits from its realms in 1767. Clavigero was a creole patriot and wrote an important history of Mexico, honoring its prehispanic, indigenous part. 

The UIA library contains hundreds of historical documents including ''El Sagrado Corazón del Santissimo Patriarcha Sr. San Joseph'' ("The Sacred Heart of the Most Holy Patriarch Mr. San Joseph") written in 1751 by [[José María Genovese]] (1681&ndash;1757). The library holds the original sixteenth-century testaments in Nahuatl from the indigenous town of Culhuacan, published as ''The Testaments of Culhuacan''.<ref>S.L. Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, editors and translators. ''The Testaments of Culhuacan''. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, Nahuatl Studies Series No. 1, 1984.</ref>

The library also provides [[database connection]] to and from other libraries in [[Mexico]], [[Spain]] and [[Latin America]].

==See also==
* [[List of libraries in Mexico]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.bib.uia.mx Official site] {{in lang|es}} 
* [http://www.bib.uia.mx/sitio/acercaBFXC/html/bfxc2014.pdf Library statistics for year 2014] {{in lang|es}}
* [http://192.203.177.43/F/?func=find-b-0 Public catalogue] {{in lang|es}} 
* [http://www.campus-oei.org/repertorio/128.htm Profile] at the [[Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture]] {{in lang|es}} 
* [http://precisa.gob.mx/www.php?categoria=195 List of libraries] at the [[Federal government of the United Mexican States|government of Mexico]] site {{in lang|es}}

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[[Category:Libraries in Mexico City|Francisco Xavier Clavigero]]
[[Category:Universidad Iberoamericana]]
[[Category:1943 establishments in Mexico]]
[[Category:Libraries established in 1943]]


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