Question. We asked you to augment your dealer acquisitions in Mexico and Latin America. Is that working out? Answer. Yes. The Library has significantly increased acquisition of retrospective materials from all areas, especially Mexico and Central America. It has also acquired substantial quantities of special format materials (sound recordings, music scores, posters, and videocassettes) from all areas, including South America. We have been quite successful in our program to secure replacement copies of hundreds of titles identified as missing in the Library's inventory. Above all, we have increased dramatically the receipts of both monographs and serials, including state official gazettes, from provincial areas of Mexico, and from heretofore very difficult smaller countries such as Belize, French Guiana and Guyana. Question. For the record, indicate the annual additions to your collections from Latin America and the source and cost of these acquisitions. Answer. The tables follow: |