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Evaluating National Impact of Multi-Lingual Collections at Illinois Library

Explore historical foundations, disruptions, and competition in collecting LCTL materials. Assess constraints on impact from geographic proximity and consortial arrangements. Analyze usage beyond academia and evaluate financial commitments. Investigate the impact of robust service components on LCTL material usage.

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Evaluating National Impact of Multi-Lingual Collections at Illinois Library

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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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