General Purpose

To support instruction, study, and research in Chinese and Japanese and at the M.A. level in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and the Ph.D. level in literature and language.

Subject Description

The department emphasizes French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French Canadian and Caribbean French language, literature, literary criticism, and cinema.

Overlap with Other Subjects

Romance and Asian Languges overlaps with history, Asian studies, Latin American studies, medieval studies, anthropology, and cinema studies.

Languages Collected and Excluded

Materials for the collection are selected in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. English materials are also added.

Geographic Parameters

Publications from Western European countries, Japan, China, and the Caribbean are primarily collected.

Chronological Scope

Materials covering all time periods are collected.

Dates of Publication

Mainly current publications are collected.

Retrospective Acquisitions

Retrospective collecting is important for these subject areas.

Types of Materials Collected and Excluded

All types of materials are collected. Emphasis is on scholarly monographs, research publications, journals, interpretive and bibliographic sources, criticisms of major authors, literary periods, genres and literary groups.

Formats of Materials Collected

All formats of materials are collected. Emphasis is on print. Video and CD-ROM sources are collected selectively.

Cooperation with Other Libraries

No formal cooperative collection development agreements are in place.

Alternative Access to Resources

Interlibrary loan is a source of materials not in the UT collection.

Position Responsible for Collection

Head, Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine Library, Sandra Leach
Humanities Coordinator, Molly Royse

Corresponding Fund

Languages, Romance Languages, Stiefel

Other Factors

None

May 24, 2002