New Visualization of Library Collections by Language
The UCLA Library has always known it has collections in many languages (over 400!), but exact statistics have been hard to come by, requiring customized reports from the UCLA Library Catalog.
To make the numbers more visible and available, Library staff took a 2015 snapshot from the Catalog and imported it into Tableau Public, an online data visualization tool. Some highlights:
Top Five
| English | 4,331,234 |
| German | 453,089 |
| Spanish | 400,906 |
| French | 384,006 |
| Chinese | 205,348 |
The Classics
| Latin | 52,498 |
| Turkish, Ottoman | 3,594 |
| Sanskrit | 3,287 |
| Greek, Ancient (to 1453) | 2,212 |
| French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) | 706 |
The 10 List (exactly ten items in the collection)
| Pampanga | 10 |
| Kru (Other) | 10 |
| Frisian | 10 |
| Fang | 10 |
| Duala | 10 |
You can see the full visualization at the original site or in our research guides.