Located within the former convent, the Francisco de Burgoa Library was founded on January 15, 1994, and is named in honor of Friar Francisco de Burgoa, who documented many of the customs and traditions of Oaxaca’s Indigenous peoples. Its collection, housed by the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, holds nearly 30,000 volumes published between 1472 and 1940. Most of the materials originally belonged to religious orders and were seized during the Reform Laws of the 19th century.