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History of Collecting at Illinois

Explore the historical foundations and impact of multi-lingual collections at Illinois, from a million to a 14-million-volume library. Delve into the evaluation of Less Commonly Taught Language materials to understand the constraints and benefits regarding geographic proximity and consortial arrangements. Discover how a robust service component impacts usage and justifies institutional and governmental financial commitments. Gain insights into regional and broader community impacts beyond academic circles through aggregated Slavic holdings and a service model in numbers.

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History of Collecting at Illinois

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  1. Measuring and Sustaining the National Impact of Multi-Lingual CollectionsJoe Lenkart, Thomas H. Teper, Mara Thacker, and Steven W. Witt

  2. History of Collecting at Illinois From the Million Volume Library…. …to the 14-million volume Library.

  3. Building and Sharing a National Foreign Language Collection • Foundations • Disruptions • Sputnik • Competition

  4. Evaluating the Impact LCTL Materials at Illinois Is the impact of these collections constrained by geographic proximity and/or consortial arrangements? Does a deeper, centrally held collection of Less Commonly Taught Language materials serve the broad academic community? Beyond the academic community, who else benefits from LCTL materials collections? How does this compare with academic usage? Can the breadth of usage justify the longstanding institutional and governmental financial commitments? How does a robust service component impact the usage of LCTL materials?

  5. Data Set • Time Frame: 2007-11 • Total Loans: 195,492 • Annual Average: 39,593

  6. Is impact constrained by geographic proximity and/or consortial arrangements?

  7. Regional Impact Revisited

  8. Usage Beyond the Academic Community

  9. Serving the Broader Community: Impact of Aggregated Slavic Holdings

  10. Slavic Reference Service:Connecting Researchers and Collections

  11. COLLECTION HOLDINGS: LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS

  12. A Service Model in Numbers

  13. Bibliographic Resources and Training Methodologies

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