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CRL Libraries Support Purchase of Four Microform Sets
7 Apr 2014

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.

North American Working Group To Revise Model License
13 Mar 2014

With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a vigorous overhaul of the LIBLICENSE model license is in progress under the auspices of the Center for Research Libraries.

eDesiderata Now Customized
24 Feb 2014

CRL’s eDesiderata platform, designed to provide information about and track the status of e-resources under consideration for member licensing, has a new customizing feature: meDesiderata.

CIFNAL Offers Travel Stipends for AIFBD Meeting in France
3 Feb 2014

The Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) will offer up to four stipends for staff members at CIFNAL institutions to attend the AIFBD Conference August 23–25 in Limoges, France.

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.

Find CRL Staff at 2014 Midwinter
16 Jan 2014

Some key CRL staff members will attend ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia (January 24–28) to report on and gather input for CRL programs.

MEMP Expands Mission, Adds New Members
8 Jan 2014

The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) recently broadened its mission to incorporate digital preservation and electronic access initiatives in its regular activities. Since July 2013, five institutions have joined MEMP.

MEMP Microfilms Kurdish Newspaper Aso
10 Dec 2013

The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) has microfilmed several years of the Kurdish newspaper Aso.

CAMP Preserves Liberian Newspapers
9 Dec 2013

The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) has microfilmed issues of seven Liberian newspaper titles from the holdings of Michigan State University.

CRL To Purchase Eight New Collections
9 Dec 2013

The Center for Research Libraries will purchase eight valuable microform and reprint collections through this year’s Purchase Proposal Program, with a list price value of $125,886. These sets will soon be available through interlibrary loan from CRL.

CRL Supports LC Preservation of World News
2 Dec 2013

In recent years, CRL’s Area Studies Microform Projects supported the preservation of more than 300 newspaper titles collected by the Library of Congress overseas offices, ensuring scholarly access to more than 450,000 pages of news from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.   

Voting Now Open for CRL Purchase of New Collections
31 Oct 2013

The FY2014 ballot for CRL’s Purchase Proposal Program, an annual cooperative collection development activity, is open until Tuesday, November 26.

CRL Sees Circulation Increase
20 Oct 2013

Loans of primary resources from CRL’s collections to scholars have shown striking recent growth.

PAPR Now Offers Comparison Reports
7 Oct 2013

CRL’s Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR), a registry of print archives and shared print programs and a database of titles and holdings preserved by those programs, now provides comparison reports to aid collection development decisions and planning.

CRL Reaches Milestone of Five Million Digitized Pages
30 Sep 2013

CRL recently reached a milestone: over five million pages of digitized items from CRL collections are now available to CRL members.

SEEMP Preserves Zagreb Edition of Croatian Newspaper
17 Sep 2013

SEEMP has preserved the 1971–88 issues of the Zagreb edition of Borba.

CAMP Microfilms Newspapers from Senegal
16 Sep 2013

CAMP has preserved two newspapers from Senegal, Le Populaire and Info 7.

LAMP Preserves 19th-century Bolivian Newspapers
12 Sep 2013

LAMP (formerly the Latin American Microform Project) has microfilmed seven Bolivian newspapers from the late 19th century.

eDesiderata Provides New Licensing Support
11 Sep 2013

CRL now has a new platform for tracking the status of e-resources under consideration for member licensing. eDesiderata offers a place for sharing information and opinions about e-resources, including content, quality, and terms of purchase or subscription.