Research Libraries Group and OCLC memberships provide access to vast bibliographic databases and to efficient document delivery systems based on the holdings of North America's most eminent research collections. Besides Latin and Greek, English is the primary language of the Classics collection, but monographs published in other Western European Languages, primarily German and French are regularly purchased. Material in other languages is purchased selectively according to need. For the Modern Greek collection, besides modern Greek, critical material is purchased in English and to a smaller extent in French. All regions which formed part of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.
Scholarly treatment is emphasized.
Textbooks are not normally acquired. Whenever possible, retrospective acquisitions are made to upgrade specific areas of the collection and to serve as replacements of important books which have deteriorated or disappeared. Subjects and Levels of Collecting Definitions of collection levels are derived from the American Library Association's Guide for Written Collection Policy Statements , 1989. Collection Levels Definition of the collection levels employed by McGill University Libraries. Bibliographer buys general materials on theory of literature and translations of Classical and Modern Greek works of interest for the study of English or comparative literature, e.g. translations of classical works by Yeats, Sartre etc.