Strategies Current strategy is to maintain the strength of the collection at the country level through the approval plans. I do not check bibliographies or current review journals in British history. The presence of Ireland House on campus, with an active program of visiting scholars and a new Irish Studies minor, has stimulated interest in Irish historical resources. In 1996-7 we initiated subscriptions to half a dozen additional Irish historical journals. I also do some firm ordering based on checking of catalogs and publication lists provided by Kenny's.
Purchases are in English only.
The collection is generally strong although not as extensive as that for British history. Generally, the collection provides less source material for the political history of the modern period. Archives Parlementaires is available for the years 1789-1839 in the stacks. Local history coverage is somewhat inconsistent and less strong than that for Great Britain. Retrospective holdings include older sets of local society publications such as Revue des Pyrenees and Revue de Gascogne and Memoires de la Societe de l'Histoire de Paris .