T H E E VO LU T I O N O F L A M P A N D L A R R P

BUILDING ON A HISTORY OF COLLABORATION

Judy AlspachArea Studies Program ManagerCenter for Research Libraries

THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries.

Founded in 1949, CRL supports original research and inspired teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars a wealth of rare and uncommon primary source materials from all world regions.

FOUNDING MEMBERS OF CRL

• University of Chicago• Illinois Institute of

Technology• University of

Illinois• University of Iowa• Indiana University

• University of Kansas• Michigan State

College• University of

Minnesota• Northwestern

University• Purdue University

CURRENT CRL LIBRARIES

More than 200 North American CRL members in 2015

Global Members in Germany, India, Hong Kong

Benefits include:• Extended Interlibrary Loan of CRL collection• Digital Delivery of CRL materials• Access to LLMC-Digital• Cooperative collection programs and services• Licensing of specialized databases• Access to Charleston Advisor

AREA MATERIALS PROJECTS

The “AMPs” were founded to acquire, preserve, and maintain a collection of rare and hard to obtain research materials from or about six world regions.

• CAMP - Cooperative Africana Materials Project – 1963• SAMP - South Asia Materials Project – 1967 • SEAM - Southeast Asia Materials Project - 1970• LAMP - (Latin American Microform Project) – 1975• MEMP - Middle East Materials Project – 1987 • SEEMP - Slavic & East European Materials Project –

1995

LAMP’S EARLY ACTIVITIES

At its first meeting in 1975, the LAMP Executive Committee decided to concentrate its modest resources from 16 members on the purchase of microfilms on Mexico and Brazil, the countries of greatest interest to the membership at that time.

Sixty reels of positive film for the Mexico City Newspaper, Siglo XIX (1841–96) were LAMP’s first purchase.

In keeping with this initial policy, several original Brazilian filming projects were also approved in the early years. Among those were filming of three important document collections published in Sao Paulo: “Atas da Camara da Cidade de Sao Paulo,” “Registro geral da Camara da Cidade de Sao Paulo,” and “Inventorios e testamentos; papeis que perteneceram ao lo cartorio de orfaos da capital.”

http://www.crl.edu/pt-br/area-studies/lamp/membership-information/project-history

LAMP’S COLLECTION

• Acquired primarily through purchase or original microfilming/digitization.• Funded by annual membership fees of $765.

LAMP has 49 members in 2015.• Preserved at the Center for Research Libraries in

Chicago and available for borrowing by members of LAMP and CRL libraries.• Search the CRL Catalog at http://catalog.crl.edu/

LAMP’S COLLECTION

• Includes newspapers, archival collections, government documents, periodicals, ephemera and other rare material from/about Latin America.• Mostly on microfilm, but also includes microfiche

and digital collections.• Holdings list available: http://

www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/Lamp%20holdings%2012.pdf

• Guide to Collections available: http://www.crl.edu/area-studies/lamp/collections/guides

LAMP COLLECTION IMAGES

LARRP: LATIN AMERICANIST RESEARCH RESOURCES PROJECT

• Launched in 1994 as one of three pilot projects recommended by the Task Force on the Acquisition and Distribution of Foreign Language and Area Studies Materials of AAU’s Research Libraries Project, its membership has more than doubled from the initial group of twenty institutions.

• As of 2015, LARRP has 46 members paying $900 in annual membership fees.

• 7 LARRP partners in Latin America.

LARRP’S EARLY ACTIVITIES

• A matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched many of LARRP’s activities.• LARRP received a $405,000 TICFIA (Technological

Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access) grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education in 1999-2002 to support LARRP’s work. University of Texas-Austin was lead institution for this project.• LARRP received a $585,000 TICFIA grant in 2002-

2005 to improve access to Latin American grey literature in the social sciences through an Open Archives Portal. UCLA was lead institution for this project.

LARRP’S INITIATIVES: LAPTOC

The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) project provides access to tables of contents of journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean.LARRP members contributed Tables of Contents for titles subscribed to by their institutions.LAPTOC includes 975 academic and research journals published in 29 countries in the region, including bibliographic references to more than 340,000 articles in the area’s major languages. Most of the articles indexed in LAPTOC were published between 1994 and 2009. 

LARRP’S INITIATIVES: LAPTOC

LAPTOC is now hosted at Vanderbilt University.No new content is being added at this time.

Database searches can be made by journal title, keywords in author and article titles, and country of publication.

See http://laptoc.library.vanderbilt.edu/query/basic_search.jsp

LARRP INITIATIVES: LAOAP

The Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP) was a project to build a scholars’ portal at the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) to improve access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America. LAOAP includes working documents, preprints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials published by research institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and peripheral agencies, and that are not controlled by commercial publishers.

LARRP INITIATIVES: LAOAP

Leading partners of LAOAP: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Chile (link is external) (FLACSO-Chile) and Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (link is external) (CIRMA).

Content available at http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/laoap/

LARRP’S INITIATIVES: DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES PROJECT

Distributed resources is an agreement between participating North American libraries designed to strengthen the collective coverage of monographs and other resources produced in Latin America. Through the concerted reallocation of library collection budgets, enhanced coverage of “non-core” materials is provided in an interconnected network of collections. The total reallocated funding has been more than $170,000 per year.Libraries commit 7% of collections budget to their self-declared area of focus.

LARRP’S MISSION

• To provide access to information that supports all forms of scholarship

• To promote free and equitable access to these resources for the global scholarly community

• To actively seek partnerships with institutions that contribute to the flow of information