Library Fray Francisco de Burgoa, Research library in Santo Domingo Cultural Center, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Library Fray Francisco de Burgoa is a research library within the Santo Domingo Cultural Center that houses an extensive book collection stored on red cedar shelves. The facility focuses on materials that document Mexico's history and regional heritage.

The collection began forming in 1552, according to writings of Manuel Martínez Gracida, and by the late 18th century held over 2,400 works in 5,416 volumes. In 1827 the Biblioteca Pública del Estado de Oaxaca was founded, the first public library in Mexico; in 1859 secularization transferred convent libraries into it. French forces under Marshal Bazaine burned books as campfires in 1865.

The collection holds texts in Mixtec, Zapotec, Nahuatl, Spanish, French, and English that reflect the language diversity of Oaxaca. These books reveal how different groups in the region spoke and shared knowledge across centuries.

The library is located within the Santo Domingo Cultural Center, which is easy to navigate on foot and offers bright, spacious rooms. Access is available during the center's operating hours, and visitors should come prepared to spend time browsing the collection.

In 1865, during the French intervention, Marshal Bazaine's invading forces used books from Oaxaca's public library to light campfires; others were lost through reckless loans. The surviving volumes, including conventual books from Cuilapam, Tehuantepec, Tlaxiaco and Yanhuitlan, now rest on red cedar shelves.