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The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) has microfilmed several newspaper titles from Cameroon.  Most holdings in this collection are from the mid-1990s.

CRL recently digitized an extensive run of The Daily Drovers Journal, founded in 1873 to report on the Chicago Stockyards. This complements the primary sources preserved through Project Ceres, opening further possibilities for researching the connections between agriculture and economic and political history.

CRL and NERL Renew Partnership

September 15, 2015

CRL and the NorthEast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL) have agreed to renew their partnership, first formed in 2013 when the NERL program moved from Yale University Libraries to CRL.

The deadline for nominations for collection purchases in the CRL FY16 Purchase Proposal Program is September 30, 2015.

LAMP (Latin American Materials Project) has digitized the Brazilian newspaper Diario de Pernambuco from the University of Florida's microfilm collection.

CRL's digitization of foreign official gazettes will expose imrpotant documentation of non-transparent and "corrupt" governments. 

CRL recently reached a milestone: over six million pages of digitized pages scanned iin response to scholars’ requests for loan are now available to all CRL member institutions.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has completed a preservation audit of Canadiana.org, and on the basis of that audit certified Canadiana as a trustworthy digital repository.

The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) has microfilmed issues of the newspaper Zambeze for 2002-2013.

The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) has digitized 90 rare titles published in 1945-1954 by various groups of Ukrainian Émigrés living in Germany or other Western European countries.

Preserving America's Print Resources II: a North American Summit was convened by CRL at ALA 2015 in order to discuss how CRL can further support the archiving and sharing of print serial collections by North American libraries.

Five libraries become CRL members on July 1, bringing the number of CRL member institutions overall to 215.

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

A number of CRL staff members will attend this year’s ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, June 25-30, to report on, and gather input for, CRL programs.

TRAIL will now collect U.S. government technical reports from all years, doing away with the 1975 cutoff it had previously used.  Following a recent vote of the membership, the TRAIL Bylaws were amended to allow for personal memberships.

Over the last several months CRL has undertaken several major upgrades to the facility.  These projects represent the culmination of a multi-year initiative focused on improving the Center’s preservation environment, and increasing energy efficiency.   

CAMP (Cooperative Africana Materials Project) has microfilmed issues of the Rwandan newspaper Imvaho Nshya from 2001-2013.

LARRP (Latin Americanist Research Resources Project) has provided funding to the recently launched Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera, which is hosted at Princeton University.

Marianne Mason, the TRAIL project's Member Representative from the University of Iowa, has been appointed to the Depository Library Council.

CIFNAL, the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections, has awarded travel stipends for travel for librarians to travel to an international conference.