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The South Asian P.L. 480 Library Program, 1962–1968

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Maureen L. P. Patterson
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Since the end of World War II there has been a nation-wide burgeoning of academic interest in South Asia, that is to say, in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, and Nepal. The pioneering teaching and research program in South Asian Studies was established at the University of Pennsylvania in 1947 with substantial support from the Carnegie Corporation. This program comprised a balance of humanistic and social science studies supported by the teaching of the appropriate classical and modern languages of South Asia as tools of research. Concerted efforts were early made to acquire adequate library materials to support all aspects of the program. These efforts which involved direct contact with the highly disorganized Indian book trade were initially frustrating but eventually met with success. Problems of processing and cataloging followed on those of acquiring the books but by the end of the first decade Pennsylvania had what seemed then to be quite adequate library support for its pioneer program in South Asian studies.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 1969 , pp. 743 - 754
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969

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References

1 Southern Asian Studies in the United States; a Survey and Plan (Philadelphia, 1951).Google Scholar

2 Later collected and published in the Journal of the Oriental Institute, Baroda, Vol. 8 (1959), Vol. 9 (1960), and Vol. 10 (1960–61).

3 U. S. Library of Congress. Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959. (Washington, D. C., U. S. Government Printing Office), 1960, p. 8.

4 Ibid.

5 Mortimer Graves, “The Dingell Amendment Rides Again,” 1961. Mimeographed letter sent to interested parties.

6 American Council of Learned Societies, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Social Science Research Council.

7 The institutions invited to participate were selected by a special Library of Congress Advisory Committee on Public Law 480.

8 University of California (Berkeley), University of Chicago, Cornell University, Duke University, University of Hawaii, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, and Yale University.

9 Columbia University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Syracuse University, University of Virginia.

10 Up to 1968, CRL (MILC) had received a set of all the government documents.

11 The Impact of the Public Law 480 Program on Overseas Acquisitions by American Libraries. (Madison, The University of Wisconsin Library School, 1967).Google Scholar

12 Library of Congress P.L. 480 Newsletter, No. 6, July 1963, p. 2.

13 Donald Jay, op. cit., p. 13.

14 Some conclusions in the mimeographed report on a questionnaire regarding P.L. 480 receipts written in 1965 by Stephen A. McCarthy, then Chairman, South Asia Subcommittee of the Farmington Plan.

15 See Library of Congress P.L. 480 Newsletters No. 12 (Feb. 1967) and No. 13 (Aug. 1967).

16 The annual cost of centralized cataloging to each participating library was initially $7,750; it decreased to $6,000 in 1963, and by 1967 was cut to $3,000. In 1968, this charge was eliminated altogether.

17 Mortimer Graves, Third interim report on a study of the use of P.L. 480 accessions, 1968. Mimeographed.

18 Ibid. p. 3.

18a This is now being done, as of March 1969.

19 Patterson, Maureen L. P., “The impact of the South Asian P.L. 480 program on the University of Chicago Library,” In Williamson, op. cit. p. 26.Google Scholar

20 Ibid. p. 27.