BUILDING ON A HISTORY
OF COLLABORATION
THE EVOLUTION OF LAMP AND LARRP
Judy Alspach
Area Studies Program Manager
Center 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:
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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.
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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_sear
ch.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 “noncore” 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 selfdeclared 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