AORC Libraries Working Together

The Digital Library for International Research collaborates with its partner American Overseas Research Centers (AORC) to make international primary and secondary research materials accessible to US and host country scholars. The following is a list of projects the DLIR and partner AORCs have initiated to make research material more accessible.

 

DLIR Union Catalog

DLIR LogoThe union catalog of the Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) represents the collective holdings of 22 libraries at member American overseas research centers in the CAORC consortium and local partner libraries and archives. Each library or archive has a dedicated online public access page so their catalogs can be searched individually as well as across all the member collections. Funding for the startup of this project has been provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) program.

   

Local Archives and Libraries at Overseas Research Centers

MosqueThe Local Archives and Libraries at Overseas Research Centers (LALORC) project, is an initiative of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. The project produced a directory of libraries and archives in various international locations, as well as bibliographic and digital projects. Bibliographic projects are incorporated into the DLIR union catalog and digital projects are cited below. Funding for this project has been provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) program (2005-2009).

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Cooperative Digitization of International Research Materials

YemenThe Cooperative Digitization of International Research Materials (CDIRM) utilizes participating American overseas research centers’ connections to collaborate with foreign archives and special collections that hold unique and rare research materials. Selected materials from Guatemala, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Yemen, and Mongolia will be made easily and freely available over the Internet to American and international scholars and students. Not only are most of these materials uncataloged, unavailable, or unknown to scholars, most are extremely difficult to access (because of location, unsettled political conditions, privacy issues, or bureaucratic procedures). The Coordinator of the Digital Library for International Research, located at the Center for Research Libraries, will act as program manager. As were the creation of the DLIR union catalog and the LALORC program described above, this project, started in 2009, is funded by a 4-year matching grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) program.