2015 Council of Voting Members Meeting

Event Logistics

Date: 
Friday, April 24, 2015
Time: 
10:00 a.m.--noon Central Time
Location: 
CRL
Contact: 
Bernie Reilly - breilly@crl.edu

The 2015 annual Council of Voting Members Meeting will be held as a web event. This is the main CRL governance event, at which representatives of CRL libraries review new and ongoing CRL initiatives, elect new Board members, and vote on the annual budget for the coming fiscal year. Documentation and other background information will be provided to all registrants in advance of April 24. In addition, a series of posts appearing on CRL's blog Common Knowledge, will offer interested participants a primer on CRL and its programs.  

  • Chair’s Report

    Richard Fyffe, Rosenthal Librarian of the College, Grinnell College
    FY 2014 Annual Report
  • President’s Report: "CRL’s Strategic Investment in Digital Global Resources – An Update and Forecast" 

    Bernard Reilly, President, Center for Research Libraries
  • Nomination Report and Election of Board of Directors

    Richard Fyffe, Rosenthal Librarian of the College, Grinnell College
    Nominating Committee Report  (CRL Members Only)
  • Primary Source Awards

    James Simon, VP, Center for Research Libraries
    Announcement of recipients

The meeting will be followed at 1:00 PM Central time by an online Global Resources Collections Forum, where librarians, specialists and researchers from CRL libraries share information and thinking on major collection development and preservation topics and help shape CRL collections and programs.

The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

Vietnamese Newspapers Essential for Berkeley Dissertation

UC Berkeley graduate student uses CRL’s extensive collection of South Vietnamese newspapers for his dissertation on the social history of the interregnum period, 1963-1967..

Helping Libraries Deal with ‘Big’ Data

At CRL’s 2018 Global Collections Forum, Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Head of Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections at Stanford University Libraries, discussed how satellite imagery and large geospatial datasets are being used as source materials for scholars in a variety of disciplines, and the new types of library support they require.