News
Jan 22 2009
CRL and ProQuest to digitize a portion of CRL's historical American journals.
ProQuest will introduce a new collection in the ProQuest American Periodicals Series Online, "American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries", which will contain full text and full-color scans of nearly three million pages of CRL journal content focusing on special interest and general magazines from the 19th through the early 20th century.
Jan 22 2009
Planning for 3 new WNA collections begins.
The World Newspaper Archive advisory committee recommends Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe for future conversion.
Dec 22 2008
SAMP acquires Sindhi periodical Maru'i
Sindhi literary monthly, 1967-1983
Dec 22 2008
CAMP acquires Namibian newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung
The Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) has acquired an extensive run on microfilm of Allgemeine Zeitung (Windhoek, Namibia) from 1949 to 2007. The Allgemeine Zeitung is the oldest newspaper in Namibia, founded in 1915.
Dec 16 2008
Preliminary release of World Newspaper Archive
The preliminary release of the first World Newspaper Archive collection is now available for member review and comment. The release includes some 60,000 pages of El Mercurio, 1914-22.
Nov 7 2008
“Middle East in Microform” available online
The Middle East in Microform: A Union List of Middle Eastern Microforms in North American Libraries is now available on the University of Washington’s Web site.
Nov 5 2008
MEMP acquires al-Quds al-Arabi
The Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) has received microfilm reels of al-Quds al-Arabi (London) from the period 1989–93 and 1998–2007.
Nov 5 2008
MEMP acquires the Tangier Gazette
The Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) has acquired Tangier Gazette (variant titles include Al-Moghreb al-Aksa, Tangier Chronicle, and Morocco Gazette) for the dates 1897–1940, 1949–50.
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