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Placing Our Bets on Languages Council on East Asian Libraries, 3.24.10

Placing Our Bets on Languages Council on East Asian Libraries, 3.24.10. Thomas C. Leonard University Librarian, University of California Berkeley Past President, Association of Research Libraries. HathiTrust Language Count. Our bet with Google requires patience.

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Placing Our Bets on Languages Council on East Asian Libraries, 3.24.10

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  1. Placing Our Bets on LanguagesCouncil on East Asian Libraries, 3.24.10 Thomas C. Leonard University Librarian, University of California Berkeley Past President, Association of Research Libraries

  2. HathiTrust Language Count

  3. Our bet with Google requires patience. Access to Google scans of non-English language imprints in our libraries will come only after American courts have sorted out the Google Book Search Settlement. There is a good reason to call this March Madness:

  4. Free Burma Rangers—Southeast Asia In 2009, University of Texas Libraries began collaborating with Free Burma Rangers (FBR), a non-profit organization based in Southeast Asia that provides humanitarian aid to internally displaced Burmese refugees and documents human rights violations that have occurred under the military dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar. Note: Access to these materials is currently limited to Free Burma Rangers staff due to the sensitive nature of the information.

  5. Mission: Shaping the future of research libraries in the changing environment of public policy and scholarly communication. Members: 123 major research libraries in North America, including the national libraries and research publics. Ratios: 4 percent of the higher education institutions providing 43 percent of the information resources. Users: 4.2 million students and faculty served. Expenditures: $3.9 billion annually, $1.3 billion for acquisitions of which 46 percent is invested in access to electronic resources.

  6. The major barrier to library collaboration is: Results of informal audience responses from ARL May 2009 Membership Meeting

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