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Show Page 22 A more dramatic illustration of the growth in American resources for Arabic studies can be seen through a comparison of our figures with those compiled in 1962/63 by Mohamed el-Iladi. el-Hadi's figures are for cataloged and backlog volumes; ours are cataloged holdings only. Princeton Harvard Michigan Hoover Columbia Utah NYPL UCLA Texas Virginia Indiana Binghamton Chicago Berkeley Boston College Kentucky Portland Yale Arizona NYU use Illinois Cornell Hartford Sera. el-Hadi 15,000 10,000 6,000 9,000 . 6,000 .10,000 15,000 15,000 250 - t - i 5,000 5,000 750 2,000 . - - * .-' 7,000 - • - • 325 . v^-- •6,000 ARL 44,303 40,500 38,300 .30,000 28,550 27,000 25,000 25,000 22,362 18,000 16,500 15,000 15,000 15,000 14,390 13,500 12,953 11,000 apx 10,932 10,500 10,000 6,000 3,625 - From this comparison, certain observations are in order. Among the major collections in 1962-63 (i.e., with holdings of 5,000 or more) the University of Michigan has shown the greatest growth, some 633 per cent; Columbia grew by 475 per cent; Harvard by 400 per cent; Princeton, Chicago, and Berkeley 300 per cent; Utah by 270 per cent; New York Public and UCLA by 170 per cent. When one realizes that during this period the PL 480 program pumped in about 12,000 monograph volumes, it is evident that, disregarding current backlogs, the growth of NYPL, UCLA, Chicago, Berkeley, Boston College, Kentucky, Portland, Arizona, NYU, and USC could be attributed entirely to PL 480 accessions. |