The collection is in both French and Spanish and I love working with foreign language materials.
"Foreign Language Materials, Area Studies Collections, Global Resources: Recalibrating the Research Library Role and Responsibilities," Association of Research Libraries, Seattle, 29 April 2010.
A group of library users and residents of Midtown Manhattan are fuming over what they are calling the inept and heartless handling of the Donnell Library, which was known for its rich holdings of movies, music, foreign language materials and children's books until it closed last year.
(It can be used to quiz students on foreign language materials, though).
Foreign language materials are also available on loan to all students: language books, e-books, CDs and DVDs, mp3, video files.
In early December 2012, the Duke University Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries co-sponsored an invitational forum on the problem of decreasing acquisitions of foreign language materials in United States research libraries and the potential impact on scholarship, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.
With the Center for Research Libraries, she recently convened and chaired an invitational forum at Duke on the Global Dimensions of Scholarship and Research Libraries, focusing on the problem of decreasing acquisitions of foreign language materials in United States research libraries and the potential impact on scholarship, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.
Institutional libraries in the poorest parts of the world often rely on donations of printed periodicals rather than direct subscription, resulting in second-hand, out-dated titles, irrelevant publications and inappropriate foreign language materials, and this appeared to be the case in the current study.
And what could be more true to the democratic nature of a library than putting the children's section and the foreign-language materials on the street level?
