Hunt, 'Title VI Grants To Support South and East Asian Collections', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v23n07 (February 1996)
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_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 23 no. 7
February 1996
Hunt, Margaret and Joanne Oud
"Title VI Grants To Support South and East Asian Collections"


Title VI Grants To Support South and East Asian Collections

North Carolina State University, Duke University, and UNC-
Chapel Hill received two Title VI grants in 1995-96 from the 
U.S. Department of Education's Center for International 
Education.  The grants will fund undergraduate programs in 
international studies and foreign languages, as well as related 
library materials, at the three universities.

The Triangle South Asia Consortium, an educational 
cooperative made up of the South Asia faculties at the three 
Triangle institutions, received a three-year grant.  The NCSU 
Libraries' portion of the grant is $24,000 over the three-year 
period.  The three libraries will apply their grant monies and 
their own matching funds to different collection emphases: 
Duke will develop its South Asian film collection, while NC 
State and UNC-Chapel Hill will build core collections.  The 
NCSU Libraries will enhance its collections in English for the 
program's core courses in South Asian culture and will 
purchase reference and other basic materials in Hindi and Urdu 
to support the levels of language instruction that will be 
offered.  More specialized purchases will be coordinated with 
the other two libraries.  The NCSU Libraries will also bring in 
an independent library consultant to help assess the South 
Asian collection and develop a formal collection policy for 
those materials.

The three institutions also received a grant to fund the 
Triangle East Asia Studies Project:  Deepening Area and 
Language Studies in an Internationalizing Region.  The library 
portion of the grant is intended to strengthen library resources 
for undergraduate students with the purchase of reference 
books, films, and basic sets.  The NCSU Libraries will receive 
$14,000 over a two-year period.  With its grant monies and 
matching funds, the Libraries will focus on adding 
undergraduate-level materials in East Asian studies, including 
reference and core materials and films in Chinese and 
Japanese.