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SAMP - The South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) acquires, preserves, and maintains microform and digital collections of unique, rare, and bulky or voluminous research materials in South Asian studies for...

FOCUS

CRL’s quarterly publication examining the challenges of preservation and access for primary source materials in various fields.

Building South Asia Collections, Fall 2015 - Reporting on cooperative collection workshops for U.S. academic libraries, which resulted in improved access to diverse collections. There are also notes on recently microfilmed issues from 1921-...

South and Southeast Asian Resources, Winter 2009–10 - The Winter 2009–10 issue of our quarterly newsletter highlights CRL’s South and Southeast Asian resources.

Colonial India, Fall 2007

South Asia Studies, Spring 2005

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CRL Digital Resources for Those Working Remotely
16 Mar 2020

CRL and East View announce Global Press Archive Charter Alliance
29 Jan 2019

CRL to Purchase Five New Collections
11 Jan 2019

CRL and LLMC Renew Partnership
9 Jan 2015

SAOA and SAMP Provide Open Access to Madras Legislative Assembly Debates
17 Jun 2020

Past Events

The Global Dimensions of Scholarship and Research Libraries: A Forum on the Future
5 Dec 2012 - 1:00am

SAMP Meeting
20 Mar 2020 - 10:00am

SAOA Meeting
19 Mar 2020 - 9:30am

South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Launch Event
18 Oct 2019 - 12:15pm

SAOA Meeting
23 Mar 2019 - 1:15pm

The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

South Asia Specialist’s Research Enriched by CRL Collections

Wendy Singer, Kenyon College professor, explains how CRL collections supported her original research on South Asian women.

Afghan Documentation Spans Tumultuous Century

Daily newspapers and cultural journals collected by LC's Field Office in Islamabad have been preserved through the efforts of MEMP and SAMP.

Teaching Modern History of India With CRL Newspapers

CRL's extensive holdings of Indian newspapers proved highly valuable for University of Iowa history professor's undergraduate course, "Imperialism and Modern India."

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