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Primary Source Award Nominations Now Open
1 Oct 2014

The Primary Source Awards recognize librarians, faculty, and researchers for innovative and creative uses of primary source materials. Nominate colleagues (or yourself) for CRL’s annual award program.

Deadline Extended for 2015 Purchase Proposal Program
1 Oct 2014

The deadline for nominations for collection purchases in the CRL FY15 Purchase Proposal Program has been extended until October 7.

SEEMP Acquires Russian Satirical Journal Krokodil
23 Sep 2014

SEEMP (Slavic and East European Materials Project) has acquired microfilm of the Russian satirical journal Krokodil for the years 1923–44.

CRL Supports AMPs’ Digital Turn
22 Sep 2014

CRL’s six Area Materials Projects increasingly embrace digitization as a mechanism for preservation and access.

Digital Delivery System Upgraded
15 Sep 2014

CRL recently upgraded its Digital Delivery Systems (DDS) website. Since its initial release in 2006, new content as well as system features have been added to DDS continuously. The site now hosts 22,000 plus titles, with 5.5 million pages total, digitized from CRL collections to support advanced research and teaching by scholars at CRL member institutions.

Project Ceres Funds Michigan Grange Visitor Digitization
15 Sep 2014

The Grange Visitor, the official newspaper of the Michigan State Grange from 1875 to 1896, is online as a Michigan State University Digital Collection with support from Project CERES. With funding from the Center for Research Libraries, twenty-one volumes, 402 issues, and 3,239 pages are now preserved and accessible to researchers.

NEH Award to Upgrade CRL Collections Environment
3 Sep 2014

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

The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) has acquired the Russian newspaper Zapoliar'e for the years 1971-1990.

CRL Releases Purchase Proposal Video Tutorial
6 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

New reviews in The Charleston Advisor, an online review of electronic resources, include Cold War Intelligence: The Secret War Between the U.S. and the USSR, 1945-1991; J.P. Morgan Research; Thomson Reuters RIA Checkpoint; and Women's Wear Daily Online.

CRL Releases CLOCKSS Audit Report
25 Jul 2014

CRL has released the findings of its preservation audit, and has certified CLOCKSS as a trustworthy digital repository. The certification applies to the repository’s ability to preserve and manage digital content deposited with CLOCKSS by participating e-journal publishers as of May 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

Project Ceres—a collaboration between USAIN, AgNIC, and CRL—is funding projects that preserve print materials essential to the study of agriculture and make those materials accessible through digitization.

SEAM Preserves Indonesian Newspaper
10 Jun 2014

SEAM (Southeast Asia Materials Project) has microfilmed the years 1992–2005 of the Indonesian newspaper Harian Sore Garuda.

CAMP Preserves Somali Newspapers
3 Jun 2014

The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) recently preserved several newspapers from Somalia and Somaliland collected by the Library of Congress Field Office in Nairobi. Issues of the twenty titles span the years 1998 to 2012. 

Find CRL Staff and Events at 2014 ALA Annual Conference
3 Jun 2014

A number of CRL staff members will attend this year’s ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, June 26–July 1, to report on, and gather input for, CRL programs.

Recent TCA Electronic Resource Reviews
2 Jun 2014

New reviews in The Charleston Advisor, an online review of electronic resources, include several financial and government information databases: Bloomberg Professional Service; Risk Management Association eStatement Studies; and State Stats, from CQ Press.

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.