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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.

CRL Welcomes Four New Members
26 Aug 2013

Four new members have joined CRL since the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, bringing the number of member institutions overall to an all-time high of 275.

Submit Nominations for 2014 Purchase Proposal Program
26 Aug 2013

CRL invites nominations for collection purchases in the FY2014 Purchase Proposal Program until September 30.

CRL and British Library To Digitize Foreign News
12 Aug 2013

Partnership will encompass up to 7 million pages of international news content from British Library collections for the World Newspaper Archive.

CRL To Audit CLOCKSS
5 Aug 2013

The Digital Distributed Community Archive (the CLOCKSS Archive) has engaged the Center for Research Libraries to undertake an in-depth audit of the CLOCKSS preservation archive.

CRL Announces New NERL Director
5 Aug 2013

CRL announces the appointment of Christine Stamison as the new director of NERL. Stamison will be responsible for meeting the ambitious goals and objectives of the NERL Program at the Center for Research Libraries.

TRAIL Announces New E-mail List TRAILtalk
24 Jul 2013

The Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) has a new email list. TRAILtalk is intended as an information exchange about all things related to TRAIL and technical reports.