CRL News

CRL digitization recently reached another milestone: over 25,000 titles digitized from CRL collections are now hosted on CRL's DDS platform, available to researchers at CRL member institutions.

The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) recently microfilmed twelve newspaper titles from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, spanning the years 1988-2010.

The Collections and Services Policy Committee plays a critical role in reviewing and proposing broad directions for CRL collections strategy.

Three libraries became new voting members of CRL on July 1.

ProQuest's metadata digitized newspapers provides valuable data on publication history and product coverage in key databases for academic research.

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) has recently microfilmed issues from May 2000 - April 2002 of the Indonesian newspaper Xin sheng ri bao (Harian Hidup Baru), which is published primarily in the Chinese language.

The dashboard, developed as a result of recent community discussions, provides a high-level view of the progress of shared print archiving efforts.

Three CRL staff members will attend this year's ALA Annual Conference in Orlando.

The Latin American Materials Project (LAMP) has microfilmed issues from 1992 of the New York City newspaper Listín USA, which covered the Dominican community there.

Four institutions recently joined TRAIL (the Technical Report Archive & Image Library).  TRAIL identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.