The University of Wisconsin Library System's Land Tenure Collection includes documents on land tenure, agrarian reform and agrarian structure in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Republics, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Oceania. In addition, the collection includes extensive information on the subjects of agricultural economics and rural development for these regions. Recently materials about North America have also been sought to supplement other campus library collections.
From 1962 to 1996, the Land Tenure Center Library was an autonomous entity.
In September 1996 responsibility for management of the collection was assumed
by Steenbock Library, the campus agriculture library. Physical integration
of the collection was completed in the fall of 1997. Beverly Phillips, for many
years Director of the Land Tenure Center Library, served as coordinator of LTC's
Library and Information Services until August 2003.
Steenbock Library and other campus libraries with land tenure materials are open to all for on-site use.
To borrow materials, University of Wisconsin faculty, staff, and students must present a validated University Photo ID. At Steenbock, other Wisconsin residents will be given a library card upon presentation of a current Wisconsin driver's license. Short-term university-sponsored visitors should contact the Land Tenure Center to make special arrangements to borrow items from the collection while they are in Madison.
Off-site users may be able to borrow materials via interlibrary loan.
Most materials in the Land Tenure Collection are in Steenbock Library. Other campus libraries, especially Memorial Library, also own relevant documents. Consult MadCat for the location of specific titles.
Relevant addresses are:| Steenbock Memorial Library 550 Babcock Drive Madison, WI 53706 |
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Integration has been completed. Here is a summary of decisions made and polices established as part of the process:
The Library has been an important part of the Land Tenure Center since its founding in 1962. Due to funding changes, LTC can no longer operate a separate collection. Therefore, management of the collection was assumed by Steenbock Library in September 1996. LTC and the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System are working together to continue to build the Land Tenure Collection on the UW-Madison campus.
An ad hoc library management group reviewed the comments of library users and developed an integration plan. Under this plan:
Most materials in the LTC Library remained at Steenbock, and Steenbock has assumed primary responsibility for acquiring and retaining land tenure materials. The transfer of older materials began during the spring semester of 1997. Duplicate copies of some materials were discarded, but unique titles were kept. All LTC Library materials are currently included in MadCat, the campus on-line library catalog. The computer catalog entries now reflect the actual location of each item.
The Land Tenure Center Library's extensive vertical file collection of ephimeral
literature was moved intact to the third floor of Steenbock Library. Physical
integration was completed in the autumn of 1997.
If you have access to Interlibrary Loan, you may use that route to request photocopies of articles as well as separate publications. Check with your library to see whether there will be a charge for this service. If you do not have access to interlibrary loan, you may want to purchase copies of articles from a commercial vendor such as Ingenta. Alternatively, you may set up a deposit account in US dollars at Steenbock Library and use those funds to purchase photocopies of articles in journals and books owned by University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries. For details about establishing such an account, see http://steenbock.library.wisc.edu/access/docdeliv.htm
Materials in the LTC collection can be loaned out via interlibrary loan. Requests to borrow Land Tenure Collection materials must be submitted through your library. An interlibrary loan is a transaction between libraries--requests from individuals cannot be filled.
To find out more see the following:
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