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The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded CRL an implementation grant of $159,720 to improve monitoring and control of the temperature and humidity in CRL’s 93,750 square feet of collection storage space. This will be the latest in a series of major improvements made recently by CRL to the environment and security of its unique and valuable collections.
SEEMP Acquires Russian Newspaper Zapoliar'e
19 Aug 2014
CRL has released a short video on its Purchase Proposal Program for CRL librarians interested in cooperative collection building. This “how-to” video outlines the steps for nominations and voting.
Recent TCA Electronic Resource Reviews
28 Jul 2014
CRL Releases CLOCKSS Audit Report
25 Jul 2014
CRL Welcomes Seven New Members
2 Jul 2014
Seven libraries became CRL members on July 1, bringing the number of CRL member institutions overall to 204.
Project Ceres Funds Nine New Projects
23 Jun 2014
SEAM Preserves Indonesian Newspaper
10 Jun 2014
CAMP Preserves Somali Newspapers
3 Jun 2014
Recent TCA Electronic Resource Reviews
2 Jun 2014
MEMP Digitizes Iraq Newspapers
2 Jun 2014
The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) has digitized two newspapers related to Iraq that are now available online through the CRL Catalog.
New 2014 CRL Board Members and Officers
5 May 2014
At its recent Annual Meeting, the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries welcomed one new board member and re-elected three current board members to second terms.
CIFNAL Announces Travel Stipend Winners
28 Apr 2014
CIFNAL (Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections) announces that four librarians have been awarded stipends of $1,250 each to attend the 2014 AIFBD Conference August 23–26, 2014, in Limoges, France.
With the support of 17 member libraries, CRL will acquire four microform sets through its 2014 Shared Purchase Program. The total list cost of these acquisitions, which benefit all CRL members, is $42,200.
eDesiderata Now Customized
24 Feb 2014
Recent TCA Electronic Resource Reviews
31 Jan 2014
Recent reviews in The Charleston Advisor, an online review of electronic resources for libraries, include Black Freedom I: Federal Government Records, and Black Freedom II: Organizational Records and Personal Papers; Caribbean Search; Statista; Gale’s Artemis: Literary Sources, Early European Books, The First World War; and two collections in ProQuest’s History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, and American Politics and Society from JFK to Watergate.
Mellon Foundation Funds CRL Archive Analysis
16 Jan 2014
The Center for Research Libraries recently received funding to support international analysis and planning for archiving and strategic digitization of print journals and newspapers. CRL will use these funds to expand its collecting and analysis of data on archiving and digitization efforts in the two domains, and promote coordinated, strategic action in these areas by libraries and consortia.