Area Studies Collections: Bringing the World to Your

Library

Jade AlburoLibrarian for Southeast Asian and Pacific Islands

StudiesCharleston Conference November 6, 2015

Qajar lacquer bindings, Exhibit collection of Near Eastern manuscripts, 1492-1848. Collection 1656

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

About UCLA

Royce Hall, UCLA

• Ranked 23rd nationally, according to US News & World Report (2015-16)

• But 8th in its global rankings (2016)

• 5th in New York Times’ College Access Index, ranking the top schools doing the most for low-income students

5,765 freshmen3,326 transfer

UCLA International Institute

• > 700 affiliated faculty spanning all disciplines

• 10 graduate & undergraduate degree programs

• 392 undergraduate & 23 graduate degree recipients in 2013

• More than 250 study abroad programs

• 3 federally-funded Title VI National Resource Centers: Latin American Institute, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute

• Federally-funded Language Resource Center, first of its kind in US: National Heritage Language Resource Center

The Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

• Consistently ranked among the top ten academic research libraries in North America

• Over 11 million titles, close to 12 million

• 7th in number of volumes (ARL)

• 2nd in number of distinct titles (ARL)

• 416 different languages and dialects represented

UCLA Library

Area studies periodicals

Foreign-language books

One of the UCLA Library’s Digital Ephemera Projects

• Strategic Planning

• Diversity Plan

Moving Forward

Jade AlburoLibrarian for

Southeast Asian and Pacific Islands

StudiesUCLA Library

jalburo@library.ucla.edu