Area Studies Collections:
Bringing the World to Your Library
Qajar lacquer bindings, Exhibit collection of Near Eastern manuscripts, 1492-1848. Collection 1656
Jade Alburo
Librarian for Southeast Asian and Pacific Islands Studies
Charleston Conference  November 6, 2015
Sacramento Bee article, 11/3/15
• 35 million Californians
• Only 56% over the age of 4 speak
only English at home
• Of 44% who speak another language,
2/3 speak Spanish
• In LA region, 54% speak a language
other than English at home
• 185 different languages spoken (2nd
highest in the country)
• Most spoken non-English language in
California:
• Spanish: 10.1 million residents
• Chinese: 1 million
• Tagalog: 764,743
• Vietnamese: 521,534
• Korean: 372,742
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Resource Centers: Latin American
Institute, Center for Southeast Asian
Studies, Asian Institute
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Center, first of its kind in US: National
Heritage Language Resource Center
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million
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• 2nd in number of distinct titles
(ARL)
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dialects represented
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Jade Alburo
Librarian for Southeast Asian
and Pacific Islands Studies
UCLA Library
jalburo@library.ucla.edu