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The Future of Collaboration in Area Studies Collections and Research

The Future of Collaboration in Area Studies Collections and Research. James Simon Center for Research Libraries. Current Collaborations @ CRL (specific to Latin America). LAMP Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) World Newspaper Archive – LAN Collection Building programs.

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The Future of Collaboration in Area Studies Collections and Research

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  1. The Future of Collaboration in Area StudiesCollections and Research James Simon Center for Research Libraries

  2. Current Collaborations @ CRL(specific to Latin America) • LAMP • Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) • World Newspaper Archive – LAN • Collection Building programs

  3. Global Resources Network Goals: • Expand access to information resources from all world regions. • Promote coordinated approaches to collection building and collaborative mechanisms for discovery, presentation, delivery, and preservation of international materials.

  4. OCLC Global Book Study

  5. OCLC Global Book Study

  6. LARRP Distributed Resources • Object: strengthen the collective coverage of monographs and other resources produced in Latin America • Reallocation of collection resources • Support for access

  7. Increased collection by DRP partner Decreased collection by other participants High percentage of unique material (fewer than 5 holding libraries in OCLC) LARRP Distributed Resources

  8. LARRP Distributed Resources • Level collection by DRP partner • Level collection by other participants • Low percentage of unique material

  9. LARRP Distributed Resources

  10. LARRP Distributed Resources

  11. LARRP Distributed Resources

  12. LARRP Distributed Resources

  13. DRP - Lessons Learned • Collaboration takes work • non sufficit unum • Collect smarter, not harder

  14. LAMP • 2,300 titles • Newspapers • Journals • Monographs • Electronic resources • 10,000 reels • $1m investment in collaboration

  15. World Newspaper Archive Latin American Newspapers • 1.1 million pages • 33 titles (of 35) • 1805-1922 • Community sourced • Community supported

  16. Future of Collaboration • Respond to the changing landscape of production, acquisition, preservation of information • Leverage strengths & capacity where it exists

  17. LLMC-Digital • Law Library Microform Consortium • 20 million pages legal material (U.S., foreign) • Strategic partnership for content prioritization • CRL-wide access for FY2011

  18. EThOS • Electronic Thesis Online Service(British Library) • Single point of access to Ph.D theses from UK • Digital access through CRL Demand Purchase • Partnership for selection, digitization of key areas

  19. Future of Collaboration • Respond to the changing landscape of production, acquisition, preservation of information • Leverage strengths • Enhance information sharing among libraries

  20. Future of Collaboration • Respond to the changing landscape of production, acquisition, preservation of information • Leverage strengths • Enhance information sharing among libraries • Extend collaboration globally

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