Lynn Shirey, Harvard College Library

SALALM Conference, 2010

 Farmington Plan
1942-1972

• To ensure that “at least one copy of all books

important to scholarship should be available in
the United States”

• The idea of a “national collection”

• Initial cooperation was based on subject

categories, but later, country responsibility
proved to be the preferred methodology
SALALM

1956
 Latin American Cooperative Acquisitions
Program (LACAP)
1959-1972

• Stechert-Hafner, Inc. (booksellers). Acquisitions

trips by agents

• Located and encouraged in-country vendors of

library materials

• 38 library members by 1967

 Library of Congress
PL480 Program
1962

• Overseas acquisitions offices

• Midwestern Inter-Library Center expanded
and became CRL, 1965

• National Program for Acquisitions and

Cataloging (NPAC) LC, 1966
 RLG Conspectus
(1973)

Columbia, NYPL, Harvard, Yale

 LAMP
(1975)

• Affiliated to SALALM, administered by Center

for Research Libraries

• To create, preserve and maintain microform

and increasingly digital copies of expensive,
endangered or elusive primary research
materials
 SALALM Regional Groups
1993-

• LANE (Northeast)

• LASER (Southeast)

• MOLLAS (Midwest)

• CALAFIA (California)
 Latin Americanist Research Resources
Project (LARRP), 1995
Consortium of research libraries that seeks to increase free and open access
to information in support of learning and scholarship in Latin American
Studies

LARRP projects include

• Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
• Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP)
provides access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America
• Presidential Messages
database contains digital images of more than 75,000 pages of Mexican
and Argentinian presidential speeches from the early 19th century to the
present.
 Distributed Resources
• Strengthen the collective coverage of
monographs and other resources produced in
Latin America through concerted reallocation
of library collection budgets

• Provide enhanced coverage

of “noncore” materials in
an interconnected network
of collections
 Boutique collaborations
•Berkeley / Stanford
•Harvard / Yale
•Brown / Dartmouth
•2 CUL
•NYPL / NYU
•U of North Carolina /
Duke
•Extreme Sharing
 Questions to ponder
• How do we set goals for collaborative projects?

• How do we measure progress or success in any of these programs? 

• How can we detect and correct unintended consequences of

collaborative programs (e.g. vendors may go out of business, raise
prices, and restrict offerings)?

• What is the appropriate range of players/stakeholders to involve in

cooperative efforts, at what point in the process?  How do all of the
players get pulled into the process and mobilized to contribute to the
results?