FOCUS Summer Newsletter Available

Friday, July 29, 2005

The Summer 2005 Focus newsletter reports on important collections and access developments in an exceptionally productive year at the Center. The articles highlight the work and mission of the Collections and Services Advisory Panel, newly acquired microform sets, high-production cataloging, expansion of direct borrowing and digital delivery services, and provide updates on print and digital archiving activities.

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.”