The Julian Samora Library at the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame collects, preserves, and provides access to rare books, manuscripts, personal
papers, archives, and oral histories related to the Latino experience in the United States with a particular focus on the Midwest.
Khipu are textile artifacts composed of cords of cotton, which were used for record keeping and sending messages by runner throughout the Inka empire of
the Andean Region from ca. 1400-1532. The Khipu Database Project collects all known information about khipu into one centralized repository, and includes data in digital form.