Biblioteca Iberoamericana Octavio Paz

Biblioteca Iberoamericana Octavio Paz is a research library in Guadalajara housing thousands of volumes on Mexican literature, arts, and Latin American cultural history across multiple floors. The reading spaces are distributed throughout several levels, enabling extensive research within its comprehensively organized collections.

The library was founded to preserve the literary legacy of Octavio Paz, a poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. The collection grew over time and now documents texts from the age of conquest through the present day.

The library serves as a meeting place where readers and researchers engage with Latin American works and participate in regular exhibitions and discussion events. Visitors can observe how different cultures and languages across the continent are represented through the collection.

The reading rooms are typically open Monday through Friday with staff available to help locate documents and answer research questions. The best time to visit is in the morning when the halls are quieter and you can work with fewer interruptions.

The archive houses original manuscripts and first editions from various periods, including rare documents from the colonial era. These historical texts reveal how written culture in Mexico evolved across several centuries.