CRL Presentations Now Available Online

Monday, August 23, 2010

The Center for Research Libraries now offers rebroadcasts of informative presentations and Webinars highlighting global research resources and other valuable topics on our new YouTube channel. The channel offers presentations that survey CRL’s rich research resources; discuss recent work on print and digital repositories; and describe new digital resources available to researchers at CRL libraries, among other subjects.

The channel currently features presentations from our recent Webinar on African resources:

Webinar Recording: Resources for African Studies - Part 1 (28:18)

00:00   Introduction

03:45    CRL and CAMP collections

12:55    Collection building

20:39    CRL E-collections including World Newspaper Archives-Africa 

Webinar Recording: Resources for African Studies - Part 2 (09:40)

00:00  Electronic Resources for African Studies

06:20  Global Resources Collections Forum

The channel also contains many highlights from our recent 61st Annual Meeting and Collections Forum, including:

2010 President's Report (30:45)

New Digital Resources at CRL (19:36)

Growing CRL Shared Collections (8:19)

Global Resources Collections Forum (9:07)

Leveraging Digital Repositories (19:47)

Collaborative Print Archives (27:15)

CRL will upload more presentations within the next few months, including an introduction to our collection-building programs and an exploration of of CRL member access to the Law Libraries Microform Consortium online database.

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.”