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UC Berkeley graduate student uses CRL’s extensive collection of South Vietnamese newspapers for his dissertation on the social history of the interregnum period, 1963-1967.. Read full story

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CRL’s Official Gazettes and Civil Society Documentation website offers published versions of new laws, legislative debates, and court decisions from at-risk regimes. Read full story

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Leveraging knowledge and expertise to connect researchers to global resources.

Students of Professor Davis Houck at Florida State University consulted CRL resources to examine media bias covering the death of civil-rights icon Emmett Till. Read full story

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News

CRL and East View Announce Phase 2 of the Global Press Archive CRL Alliance
26 May 2021

The Center for Research Libraries and East View Information Services are pleased to announce Phase 2 of the Global Press Archive CRL Alliance, a...

CRL appoints Samantha Abrams as Collections & Partnerships Coordinator
29 Mar 2021

The new position will leverage Abrams' expertise in digital curation and coalition building to advance CRL's collection programs and major...

Events

TRAIL Annual Meeeting

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - 11:00am to Friday, May 14, 2021 - 3:00pm

The Annual Meeting of TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library) is open to all members. It will be held Wednesday through Friday, May 12-...

Radical Collaboration: Library Publisher Partnerships to Advance the Global Knowledge Commons

Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Join us on May 25th, 2021 from 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Central to explore the shared aims and challenges of research libraries and scholarly publishers and...

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CRL Impact

Researching the Habsburg Empire

CRL digitized nearly 70 reels of pre-World War I German Foreign Ministry documents for a University of Chicago history professor.