Also, any other language and regional variations of languages if the work is of significance. Emphasis is on scholarly treatment rather than popularization, textbooks, and children's literature. The Undergraduate Library normally collects more popular treatments and the Education and Social Sciences Library collects children's literature for its School Collection. In addition, juvenile literature is acquired very selectively and in most cases only when the author is an important literary figure. General, popular treatments of French culture are also acquired.
Materials have subject focus on some aspect of the French and Provencal languages and literatures.
Appropriate primary and secondary works, and bibliographic, and reference materials are acquired. Ordinarily, dissertations, theses and translations are selectively collected. Audio-visual materials are normally collected selectively. New and revised editions or important works are purchased when new explanatory or primary material is introduced. In the case of 2 or more libraries listed, the collection intensity is comparable.