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RLG Union Catalog Languages

Forty Million Titles (2001)

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Notes:

Slightly less than half (47%) of titles in RLG Union Catalog are for non-English materials. Of top 10 languages, all but Latin have more than one million titles. Latin’s relative high ranking reflects strength in early printed works: One million titles

Over 2 million titles include “original scripts”: Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean scripts.

Percentages deleted from pie chart:

English: 53%

German: 9%

French: 8%

Spanish: 4%

Chinese: 3%

Russian: 3%

Japanese: 3%

Italian: 2%

Latin: 1%

All others: 14%