Land Tenure Center Newsletter
Number 76, Spring 1998, p. 9-10
The University of Wisconsin Library System is home to the Land Tenure Collection, a unique resource of over 50,000 documents emphasizing land and resource tenure issues in developing countries. The Library was created along with LTC in 1962. The collection now includes thousands of ephemeral and nontraditional documents that are found in no other library in the United States.
The documents in the formerly separate LTC Library have now been merged into Steenbock Memorial Library (agriculture) and other campus libraries. The complete collection has been retained as part of the library system, and it is still growing. LTC's Library and Information Services staff works with campus libraries to build a collection that meets the changing needs of researchers, students, and policymakers.
LTC's homepage (< http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc>) is the point of departure for access to the Land Tenure Collection. From the "Library Services" portion of the site, connect directly to MadCat, the UW-Madison's on-line library catalog, where all of the documents in the Land Tenure Collection are listed.
Researchers who visit Madison encounter no restrictions to on-site use. Those in the United States and Canada can also borrow documents via interlibrary loan. Library materials are not loaned to other countries, but photocopies of brief, uncopyrighted documents may be available in some cases.
If you would like help searching MadCat, contact <brphilli@facstaff.wisc.edu>. Library staff can search the catalog for you, send you the resulting bibliography in electronic or print format, and suggest additional sources of information. If you are planning to visit Madison, please request a catalog search in advance.
LTC's information staff also prepares current awareness bibliographies of new library materials. Arranged geographically, these lists of New Books and Recent Articles are posted on LTC's website and distributed to subscribers to the Tenure Email List. The "Publications" portion of LTC's website provides citations and ordering information for documents published by the LTC since 1988. LTC also maintains an extensive program of publication exchanges with research institutions around the world and gladly accepts donations of relevant materials.
Over the years, the LTC Library has become internationally recognized as an important and unique resource. The collection is still growing, and the advent of the Internet and other electronic media has made it even more accessible to researchers around the world. At the same time, LTC remains committed to providing personalized service to help you use the information effectively.
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