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LALORC Project Partners
Collaborating entities include participating American Overseas Research Centers and their local partner networks, listed below; the Council of American Overseas Research Center and its Digital Library for International Research, and the Center for Research Libraries.
American Overseas Research Centers participating in the Local Libraries and Archives Project are located in the Mediterranean basin; the Middle East and North Africa; West Africa; South, Southeast, and Inner Asia; and Latin America. CAORC member centers located in Europe are not participating in this project because research resources available in their host countries are already very well documented. An alphabetical list of centers is below followed by a detailed list of the projects.
- American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
- Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines a Tunis (AIMS-CEMAT), Tunis, Tunisia
- Tangier American Legation Museum (AIMS-TALM), Tangier, Morocco
- American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS), Columbo, Sri Lanka
- American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), Sana'a, Yemen
- American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan
- American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)
- Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Siem Reap, Cambodia
- Mexico-North Research Network, Chihuahua, Mexico
- Palestinian American Research Center, Ramallah, West Bank
- W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR), Jerusalem, Israel
- West African Research Center (WARC), office in Dakar, Senegal; country coordinators in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Mali
Cambodia
- AORC: Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Siem Reap, Cambodia
- Project: Survey of holdings and selective digitization of Khmer language materials in the National Library
- Partner: The National Library of Cambodia, with technical assistance provided by KhmerDev
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: Bibliographies of research materials
Mongolia
- AORC: American Center for Mongolian Studies
- Project: Survey, cataloging, and selective preservation and digitization of legal 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: Catalog of materials held in the Hasna Daoud private library of Tetouan
- Partner: Hasna Daoud Library, Tetouan
Pakistan
- AORC: American Institute of Pakistan Studies
- Project: Survey of libraries in Pakistan for the LALORC database and partnered with 4 libraries to convert their library catalogs to electronic records.
- Partners: Center for Archaeological and Environmental Research;Dani Library, Institute for Central Asian Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University; Karachi Department of Archaeology, Exploration, and Excavation; National Institute for Historical and Cultural Research, Quaid-i-Azam University
Palestinian Authority
- AORC: Palestinian American Research Center
- Project: Survey of archives in Jerusalem, with detailed information on access
- Partner: PARC coordinated its project with the complementary project of the Albright Institute (AIAR)
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: Cataloging and selective digitization of photographs at the Beit el Bennani private library in Tunis
- Partner: Beit el Bennani Library
- AORC: American Research Institute in Turkey-Ankara (ARIT-A)
- 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: Additions to the e-books in the African Language Materials Archive (ALMA)
- Partner: Digital Library for International Research
Yemen
- AORC: American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), Sana'a, Yemen
- Project: Survey and cataloging of holdings in government research libraries
- Partner: Yemen Center for Studies and Research