LATIN AMERICANCOOPERATIVECOLLECTIONDEVELOPMENT

The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studiesat the University of north Carolina at Chapel hill & DUke University

In the early 1940s, the Rockefeller Foundation gave funding to Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Tulane University to be spent conjointly on Latin American acquisitions, launching the first cooperative collection development agreement for Latin American library materials in the southeast. The decision was made at the time to divide collection responsibilities geographically rather than by subject, at the same time implementing a liberal interlibrary lending policy between campuses to facilitate use of the joint collection and accommodate faculty subject interests.

Although Tulane left the cooperative agreement, the partnership between the two universities for the acquisition of Latin American library materials remains strong and is used as a model for other cooperative collection development relationships.

HISTORY OF LIBRARYCOLLABORATION

HISTORY OF THECONSORTIUM

In 1990, Latin Americanist faculty at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill formalized a collaborative partnership by founding the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke. The Consortium has received major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has been designated a Title VI National Resource Center since 1991. Additional support has been received from the Ford and Tinker Foundations. The activities and programs of the Consortium complement those specific to the Duke Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas. They include conferences, working groups, film festivals, library cooperation, summer language programs and workshops for local public school teachers and community college instructors.

Librarian for Latin American, Iberian and Latino/a StudiesInternational and Area StudiesBostock 231Duke UniversityBox 90195 Durham, NC 27708-0195(919) 660-5845holly.ackerman@duke.edu

Holly Ackerman, Ph.D.

http : //guides.library.duke.edu/latinamericanstudies

Teresa Chapa, Ph.D.

http : //www.lib.unc.edu/davis/gras/lair

Librarian for Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o StudiesGlobal Resources and Area StudiesDavis Library, Room 135University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC 27514-8890(919) 962-3948tchapa@unc.edu

MAP OF REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION

Duke University

UNC-Chapel Hill

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Both Carolina and Duke acquire core materials from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to support undergraduate study. In addition, both work cooperatively to purchase research-level materials, special formats, and expensive items such as censuses, films, and large microform collections. As a result, the collections are complementary and there is a low rate of duplication. The following list specifies our cooperative responsibilities.

COOPERATIVE COLLECTION REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION

Region Library with Primary Responsibility

MexicoCentral America

Andean Nations(Except Venezuela)

VenezuelaSouthern Cone

French Speaking Caribbean

English Speaking Caribbean

Brazil (Humanities)

Brazil(Social Sciences)

DukeDuke

Duke

Duke

Duke

UNCUNC

UNC

UNC

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