2005 Acquisitions

This year the Center acquired microform sets with a total list value of $202,155. Titles acquired appear below.

Any Center member library can nominate collections to be acquired through the Purchase Proposal program. (Voting on purchase proposal acquisitions, however, is open only to Voting Members institutions.) For more information on participating in the program please contact Mary Wilke, User Services Liaison. Program details and a link to the nomination form are in the Collections Program section of the Web site.

The list below includes links to the catalog records for each title.

2005 Shared Purchase Acquisitions

Through the Shared Purchase program the Center and certain of its members pool funds to make additional major purchases each year. The program acquired eight sets of archives, newspapers, and government documents for Center collections in 2005.

We wish to thank the following Center universities, which contributed to the shared purchases:

  • University of California – Irvine
  • University of California – Los Angeles
  • University of California – San Diego
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Colorado
  • Duke University
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Iowa
  • McGill University
  • Michigan State University
  • University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
  • Northwestern University
  • Vanderbilt University
  • University of Washington
  • Western Michigan University
  • University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Yale University

The total list value of the sets acquired through the Shared Purchase program in this fiscal year was $97,950. Titles acquired were:

  • Archive of the Brazilian Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores Historical Archives). Microfilmed in São Paulo, Brazil, from originals maintained by the Fundação Perseu Abramo, Projeto Memória & História. IDC Publishers. 40 microfilm reels.
    Government Publications Relating to the Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ), to 1910. Group II. ProQuest. 47 microfilm reels.
  • Government Publications Relating to the Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ), to 1910. Group II. ProQuest. 47 microfilm reels.
  • Illustrierte Zeitung. Leipzig , 1843-1944. Harald Fischer Verlag. 2,596 fiche. (Adds to existing Center holdings of this title.)
  • Manchester Evening News (1917, 1919-1921). British Library. 13 microfilm reels. (Adds to existing Center holdings of this title.)
  • The Sir Winston Churchill Papers. Primary Source Microfilm / Gale Group. 466 reels.
    • Series 1: Speeches of Resonance and Power
    • Series 2: Official Papers of Government Departments
    • Series 3: Official Papers: Cabinets and Committees
    • Series 4: Personal Papers: A Family in War and Peace