CRL Meetings at 2012 ALA Midwinter

Event Logistics

Date: 
Friday, January 20, 2012 to Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Location: 
Dallas, Texas
Contact: 
Gwen Ihnat - gihnat@crl.edu

Some key CRL staff members will attend ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in Dallas to report on and gather input for CRL programs. To schedule a time to meet with one of our team, please e-mail the appropriate contact below:

And a number of Global Resources project meetings will take place in the Dallas Convention Center:

  • GNARP Collection Development Working Group Meeting: Saturday, January 21, from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. in Room D225
  • GNARP’s Librarian Exchanges Working Group Meeting: Saturday, January 21, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in Room A119
  • GNARP Steering Committee Meeting: Sunday, January 22, from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m., Room D225
  • CIFNAL Steering Committee Meeting: Sunday, January 22, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Room D225
  • Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) Information Session: Sunday, January 22, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon in Room C145.

The Impact of CRL

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

CRL and Linda Hall Library partnership brings history of science to researchers' fingertips

Ben Gibson, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Linda Hall Library, discusses the fruits of the library's digitization projects with CRL.

Vanderbilt University digitizes Afro-Colombian oral histories with LARRP grant

The pilot project digitized tapes of interviews conducted by anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, and physician Manuel Zapata Olivella, often dubbed the “dean of Black Hispanic writers.”