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The symposium will take place on Friday, October 13, 2017, at the German National Library during the Frankfurt Book Fair.  Anticipated session topics include: collections and collaboration, digital scholarship, the publishing revolution, new dimensions of service to scholars and students, and new strategies for services and partnerships.

The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) will hold its Fall Business Meeting on Thursday, December 1, in Washington, DC.

SEEMP (Slavic and East European Materials Project) will hold its annual meeting in Washington, DC, on Saturday, November 19, 2016 from 3:45 to 5:30 p.m. in Washington Room 2 of the Marriott Wardman hotel in conjunction with the ASEEES Convention 2016.

The eDesiderata Forum will survey the landscape of “Big Data” electronic resources in four areas--finance, public opinion, population, and geospatial-- with an eye toward shaping CRL and NERL licensing agendas, and informing the data investment decisions of member libraries.

This introduction to CRL's collections and services is an excellent orientation for new staff, or a refresher on how CRL can extend the resources of your library.

TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library) will hold an Information and Update session from 1:30 - 2:30 pm Eastern time on Sunday, June 26 in Orlando, in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference. 

The Print Archives Network (PAN) forum is always held the Friday morning before ALA Midwinter and Annual conferences. All are welcome to attend and hear about new and best practices from the participating shared print initiatives. 

New tools from Portico enable comparison of library holdings to titles archived in Portico, to determine the completeness of archived content. Speakers from Portico will demonstrate some of these tools.

This introduction to CRL's collections and services is an excellent orientation for new staff, or a refresher on how CRL can extend the resources of your library.

The Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) will hold its annual meeting for members on Wednesday, May 11, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. in Charlottesville, VA.

LAMP’s annual business meeting will be held Monday, May 9, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Charlottesville, VA.  LAMP member libraries fund projects to acquire and/or preserve rare and at-risk research materials related to the study of Latin America through an annual membership fee. Representatives of member institutions meet annually to discuss current and future projects and set priorities for additional acquisitions.

TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library) will hold its annual Steering Committee Meeting April 26-27, 2016 on the campus of the University of Arkansas.

The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) will hold its Spring Business Meeting on Friday, April 22, in Gainesville, FL.

Held in conjunction with CRL's annual Council of Voting Members meeting, the 2016 Collections Forum will consider the meaning of responsible stewardship of collections at a time when digital resources are dominant.

The 2016 annual CRL Council of Voting Members Meeting will be held in downtown Chicago, at the University of Chicago's Gleacher Center. This is the main CRL governance event, at which representatives of CRL libraries review new and ongoing CRL inititatives and elect new Board members.

This presentation will focus on optimal strategies for CRL member libraries implementing OCLC Discovery Services locally, including WorldCat and the Knowledge Base.

The South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) will hold its annual business meeting in Seattle on Friday, April 1, in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies Conference.

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) will hold its annual business meeting in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Seattle on March 30.

Much work remains to be done to ensure scholars long-term access to electronic journals. How can the CRL community help Portico identify the journal content that is most important and most at-risk?

At this point in the age of digital technologies, electronic publications can be short-lived or unstable, while our understanding of digital preservation infrastructures is in the earliest stages. Three thought leaders offer their perspectives on how effective publishers' efforts to date are likely to be in meeting the needs of libraries and scholars by ensuring long-term access.