NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — This year, Tulane University unveiled a new gallery inside its Latin American Library. The library celebrates over 100 years of Latin American studies at the university and hundreds of years of large groups of people. The pristine gallery was worked on for quite a number of months and outlines history and culture. Hortensia Calvo is the Library Director and says, "We receive scholars yearly from all over the world to study here and consult some of these materials." The library opened back in the 1960s and many components of the collection date back into the 1920s. Calvo is well-versed in history and showcases some of the standout of the collection saying, "Printing arrives in Mexico in 1939. This case features some of the first books ever published in the Americas. This is the lid of the sarcophagus of Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal, a king who reigned for a very long time for over 70 years." New Orleans Jazz Museum showcases the life of Louis Armstrong The Spaniards were known for many things, including a vast empire that began in 1527 with Phillip the second. The Spanish were also known for being great record-keepers. The collection features everything from over 2,000 rice paper rubbings of Mayan hieroglyphics to modern day photographs from Columbian artist Erika Diettes, who documents survivors of the Columbian Civil War. There are even more peculiar acquisitions in the library like Quipus (kee-poo), which are a form of recorded knowledge that Calvo says, are essentially books. "Quipus are the way the Inca's recorded census information like population, demographics, how many older people, men, women and children," says Calvo. There is the largest repository of a particular type of silver jewelry from Mexico that dates back to the early 20th century, as well as ancient texts that can be accessed digitally. Tulane's Latin American Library is a rich treasure trove of culture that tells the foundational story of Latin America and the New World, kept on a college campus in New Orleans.