Fall 2006 Issue of FOCUS Available

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The Fall 2006 Focus newsletter highlights the International Coalition on Newspapers and marks the 50th Anniversary of the Foreign Newspaper Microfilm Project. Also: news aggregators, news archiving, and recent CRL acquisitions.

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.”