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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue 36, 1987
News from the Collection
by Maria Otero-Boisvert
Many important and exciting events have marked the past year in the
collection of the Basque Studies Program. Although it would be tedious
to try to enumerate them all, I would like to present a small sample of
what has taken place since the last issue of the Newsletter.
1) The American Library Association is in the process of preparing the
latest edition of Books for College Libraries which is a primary
selection tool for college librarians throughout the nation. They use
it to judge the standard of their own collection and to make purchasing
decisions. I have been asked to submit for this new edition a
bibliography of material related to the field of Basque Studies. Items
should be written in English and suitable
to a college audience. The significance of inclusion in this
publication is that the field of Basque Studies is thereby promoted
nationwide. The program also
stands to receive some attention since the majority of the list was
composed of titles published by our own Basque Series through the
University of Nevada Press. I
was very pleased to have been asked to contribute to this important
resource.
2) This fall semester we have the good fortune of being able to hire four
highly qualified and experienced students to assist in the collection
and the Program: Marc Ugalde, a
graduate student in the School of Education, has been associated with
the Program in one form or another for many years; Kathy Portillo is a
junior majoring in journalism and is presently enrolled in her second
year of Basque language classes; Lori Rebeiro is a sophomore enrolled
in the pre-nursing program; and Julie Chung is a junior majoring in
accounting. Aside from their
day-to-day duties each student is involved in an ongoing library
project which they are responsible for planning and implementing.
We hope that this will result in a better-organized and easier
to use library collection.
3) An updated and revised version of the Selected Bibliography of
English-Language Materials Relating to the Basques is now
available. It features an alphabetical listing by author of the
English-language material in our holdings.
This may be of use to researchers just beginning their studies
in the field. Please address
requests to M. Otero-Boisvert or Jill Berner at the Basque Studies
Program.
4) A recently instituted Duplicates Exchange Program has gotten off to a
very successful start. The BSP
offered a list of duplicate and weeded material to major libraries in
the Basque Country in exchange for similar lists from those
institutions. So far the
University of Navarre and the Biblioteca Pública Municipal-San Sebastián
have requested many items and, in turn, have offered many.
Euskaltzaindia has begun to send the Program frequent exchange
lists. We hope to branch out to
libraries in this country which may have an interest in the field.
This procedure is a time-honored one in the library world and
especially useful when dealing with difficult to find, out-of-print
publications.
5) The collection has purchased the entire, recently-released microfilm
collection of the daily newspaper El Correo Español.
Although we had already started to collect hard copies of the
newspaper, which we later had bound, space restrictions made it more
practical to acquire the microfilm. Not
only will this acquisition ease the space shortage in our serials
section, it will also provide a more complete run of the paper in
addition to ensuring a longer shelf-life for the title.
6) For these same reasons, as well as others, we are in the process of
microfilming a recent acquisition from the Basque Country.
El Liberal Guipuzcoano, a biweekly newspaper published in
San Sebastián from 1821 to 1823, is a bibliographic jewel which the
Basque Studies Program is proud to own.
Although it has sustained some worm damage along with some
mildewing through the years, the copy is quite good.
We feel it is our duty to microfilm the entire two volumes, both
for purposes of preservation and to be able to offer complimentary
copies to all the major research collections in the Basque Country.
7) The main library of the University which houses the Basque Studies
Program, has purchased a new computer system which it is in the process
of installing and implementing. The
Carlyle system will offer
library patrons a database called WOLFPAC (public access catalog),
along with automated series control, acquisitions and circulation
systems. The BSP will be
supplied with two terminals.
All items catalogued since the mid-70s will be included in the
final database. Researchers in
the BSP collection will be able to search for material in the main
collection and branches without leaving our facilities.
The BSP is, indeed, in a period of growth and transition.
Nowhere is this more evident than in its collection.
It has grown from a one-man operation in various stages of
disarray to a true information center catering to the needs of all its
patrons from the visiting scholar on an extended stay to the Basque-
Americans who come in hoping to find genealogical information about
their surname.
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