DLIR Components

ORPAC: Overseas Research Public Access Catalog: This centralized web-based online public access catalog, housed and maintained by the University of Utah's Marriott Library, consists of the records for the combined total of all monographs, dissertations and journal titles in the American Overseas Research Center (AORC) libraries, currently amounting to more than 422,000 titles.
ORJD: Overseas Research Journal Database: An on-line journal index for article-level bibliographic access to holdings, initially comprising 20,000 western language and 5,000 non-Roman language records of important and unique journal articles otherwise unavailable through existing index services.
ORDis: Overseas Research Dissertation Database: A database consisting initially of ca. 1,000 records of important foreign dissertations and theses available at the AORCs.
ORMap: Overseas Research Map Database: A database of the more than 5,000 unique foreign maps held at AORCs.
MEDMAPS: Mapping the Mediterranean: A set of databases of the more than 3,000 unique foreign maps held at AORCs located in the Mediterranean basin.

A database consisting initially of records for the most important photographs from the AORC archives, representing up to a million unique photos.
FRED: Foreign Recordings and Ethnomusicology Database: Foreign recordings and ethnomusicology database consisting initially of 8,000 recordings and 10,000 tape hours from India and Egypt.
F-LANG: Foreign Language Materials Database: Foreign language materials for use by language students and local neo-literates.
Document Delivery Services: Bibliographic access to the centers' resources is the first goal of the DLIR program, but it also encompasses a plan to extend the great value of this bibliographic access by providing, on a limited and experimental basis, document delivery over the internet for some of the most important resources themselves (full-text, images, sounds). These services as a whole are not intended to provide document delivery of mainstream contemporary western publications that are held in U.S. libraries, but rather are meant to provide access to the more unique materials held in or accessible to the AORC libraries. Under this rubric CAORC formulated and received funding from UNESCO to work with the West African Research Center (Senegal) on a project to create the on-line African Language Materials Archive (ALMA), which forms part of DLIR's F-LANG component.
Local Libraries and Archives Project
Middle East Research Journals Project

Last updated: February 8, 2006

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