Foreign language/area studies collections in research libraries

Librarians also need to work together regionally, nationally and even internationally so the segment of the profession with expertise in foreign languages and area studies, can have a good picture of the collective collection that exists across their respective institutions in various formats and also existing on the web. [...] The challenge lies in finding creative ways to promote these types specialized resources to students, faculty and university administrators and showing that they are “as central to the educational mission of the university” as other areas of the libraries’ research collections.9 Collecting research materials about different areas of the world, in various languages, fits with the research library’s. [...] The concept of collective collections A recent 2013 OCLC Research report notes that libraries approach the management of collections from the point of view of “system-wide organization of collections – whether the “system” is a consortium, a region or a country.” The digital environment has accustomed and further prompted librarians to move towards collections consolidations not only by way of sha. [...] A particular emphasis has been placed on the institutions that significantly shaped the discipline of art history, for example, the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and its Salons, and the Louvre, the first truly public art museum. [...] Novosti collection Novosti is the former Soviet Press Agency, entrusted with the mission of promoting and embellishing the culture and society of the former USSR to the international community.