LALORC

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LALORC is an acronym that stands for Local Archives and Libraries at Overseas Research Centers. It has been developed for the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) with the intention of making international collections more accessible to researchers in other countries via digital means. To this extent it collaborates with the Digital Library for International Research (DLIR). It is funded by a U.S. Department of Education Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) matching grant.

Collaborating institutions include:

• Cambodia AORC: Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Siem Reap, Cambodia

Project: Survey of holdings and selective digitization of materials in the National Library
Partner: The National Library of Cambodia, with technical assistance provided by KhmerDev

• Iraq AORC: The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), currently located in Amman, Jordan

Project: Survey of Iraqi-published journals in various scientific fields

• Israel AORC: W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR), Jerusalem, Israel

Project: Survey of libraries in Jerusalem
Partner: AIAR will correlate its project with the complementary project of the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)

• Mexico AORC: Mexico-North Research Network

Project: Digitization, with appropriate metadata, of field recordings of Mexico's indigenous languages.
Partners: Mexico's National Institute of Indigenous Languages (Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas, INALI), and the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American Studies

• Mongolia AORC: American Center for Mongolian Studies

Project: Survey, cataloging, and selective preservation and digitization of materials held in collaborating libraries
Partners The Mongolian Academy of Sciences (Library, Archives, and Institutes of History and Language); Mongolian National University (various libraries); Ulaanbaatar City Library (various collections); Antoon Mostart Center; International Mongolian Studies Association; Library of Congress

• Morocco AORC: Tangier American Legation Museum (AIMS-TALM), Tangier, Morocco

Project: Survey, cataloging, and selective digitization of materials held in the Hasna Daoud Library of Tatouan
Partner: Hasna Daoud Library, Tatouan

• Pakistan AORC: American Institute of Pakistan Studies

Project: AIPS will survey libraries not included in its initial survey program (Private Libraries and Archives Survey Project (PLASP)), primarily libraries belonging to the Directorate-General of Archaeology and Museums, as well as several university libraries
Partner: The Center for South Asia Libraries

• Palestinian Authority AORC: Palestinian American Research Center

Project: Survey of archives in Jerusalem, with detailed information on access
Partner: PARC will coordinate its project with the complementary project of the Albright Institute (AIAR)

• South Asia: library and archival materials from the following countries: India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan AORC: Center for South Asian Libraries

Project: The LALORC project coordinator will work with CSAL staff to organize the content of already-completed surveys, and to pave the way for further surveying work to be initiated in future projects.
Partner: In Pakistan CSAL will cooperate with the American Institute of Pakistan Studies' Private Libraries and Archives Survey

• Sri Lanka AORC: American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS), Columbo, Sri Lanka

Project: Survey, digitization, cataloging, and posting of decorative art collections held by national museums in Sri Lanka
Partners: National Museums of Sri Lanka

• Tunisia AORC: Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (AIMS-CEMAT), Tunis, Tunisia

AORC: Survey of the libraries of the Diocese of Tunis, the long-established Institut de Belles Lettres Arabes (IBLA) and the much newer Bibliothèque de la Medina
Partner: Diocese of Tunis

• Turkey: Ankara and Istanbul AORC: American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)

Project: Survey of private libraries in Turkey
Partner: Vehbi Koc Ankara Research Center (VEKAM)

• West Africa: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, and Cape Verde. AORC: West African Research Center (WARC)

Project: Build up the African Language Materials Archive (ALMA), part of the E-Books section of the Digital Library for International Research.
Partner: Digital Library for International Research

• Yemen AORC: American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), Sana'a, Yemen

Project: Survey, cataloging, and selective digitization of holdings in government research libraries
Partner: Yemen Center for Studies and Research