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South Asia Librarian, Princeton University

New Acquisitions February 2013 (LC-Islamabad)

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The attached list NewAcqLCIslamabadFeb2013 contains recent monograph
acquisitions from the Library of Congress-Islamabad program. Both Urdu and English titles are included. For Urdu books, I have included summary statements and hyperlinks to the Worldcat record.

Additionally, we received a significant shipment of serials, including back issues of Pakistan Annual Law Digest, Lahore. Back issues of this serial were received for the years 1978, 1982, 1997, 2000-2006, and 2010 to 2011. Also received this month is the two volume P.L.D. quinquennial digest; civil, criminal and revenue, 1962 to 1966

New Acquisitions Fiscal Year 2012

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Final 2012 fiscal reports for Princeton University Library have been released. While the attached list of acquisitions includes only items received during fiscal year 2012 (actual dates: July 2011 – June 2012) I am posting this list FY2012SAsiaAcquisitions as representative of the diversity of materials ordered on the South Asia fund over the course of one year. A few caveats: this list represents only a subset of materials relating to South Asia at Princeton; that is, those items specifically paid for with the South Asia fund. And it also excludes items received via Library of Congress program shipments. All of these titles should be available for search and check out in the Princeton University Library catalog. The list includes monographs, standing orders, and video recordings.

South Asia Cooperative Collection Development (2012)

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Princeton is one of 18 institutions that participated in a 2012 South Asia Cooperative
Collection Development Workshop. This was a follow up to earlier 2010 and 2011
cooperative workshops. The 2010 workshop focused on de-duplicating monographic
profiles, and the 2011 workshop focused on reducing redundancy and increasing diversity in Library of Congress serial subscriptions. The 2012 workshop declared distinct niche institutional/individual strengths upon which future collection endeavors could focus.

Summary reports are available for all three workshops:

As an outcome of the 2012 cooperative workshop, Princeton committed to Library of Congress profiles in the physical and biological sciences (including serials).

New Acquisitions December 2012-January 2013

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The attached Excel spreadsheet NewSAsiaBooksDec2012-Jan2013 contains a selected list of new South Asia related acquisitions at Princeton University Library for December 2012 through January 2013. This list (as well as future listings to be posted on this blog) includes titles received in Acquisitions that have not necessarily been cataloged at the time of posting–so catalog numbers are not included in this list.

The spreadsheet NewAcquisitionsLCIslamabadJan2013 includes a list of recent acquisitions from the Library of Congress-Islamabad. Both English and Urdu titles are included. For Urdu books, I have included (in the final column) a hyperlink to the WorldCat record.

The spreadsheet NewAcquisitionsLCDelhiJan2013 lists recent acquisitions from the Library of Congress–New Delhi office for the month of January 2013. This list consists of English language books in a range of subjects including some very nice art books, as well as works on economics/finance, anthropology, biology, and history.

The first step in locating any of these books is to check the Princeton University catalog. If the item has not yet been assigned a call number, submit an In Process request for the book.

At Princeton’s Graphic Arts collection, we recently acquired an art/poetry book Varsha by Ranjani Shettar. More details are on the Graphic Arts blog.