The Impact of CRL
Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.
![One of several newspapers used in research for a thesis on Vietnam. Miền Nam, July 17, 1967. CRL collections.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Mien-Nam-1967-2-crop-color.png?itok=Xg96rDgg)
Vietnamese Newspapers Essential for Berkeley Dissertation
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..![Image caption: Stanford School of Medicine researcher Hannah Wild with satellite imagery of nomadic settlements. Image courtesy of Stace Maples, Stanford Geospatial Center.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/2018_AR_BigData.jpg?itok=V6_lRscX)
Helping Libraries Deal with ‘Big’ Data
At CRL’s 2018 Global Collections Forum, Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Head of Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections at Stanford University Libraries, discussed how satellite imagery and large geospatial datasets are being used as source materials for scholars in a variety of disciplines, and the new types of library support they require.![Filistin Biladi, April 1980. Monthly publication issued by Tokyo office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Filastin%20Biladi%20041980_edited.jpg?itok=hC4qMPfi)
Unique Arab Diaspora Materials Saved for Future Scholars
The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) microfilmed Arab-language publications from several diaspora communities in non-Arab countries, continuing to affirm MEMP’s role as a provider of rare and distinctive documentation.![al-Yawm, August 20, 1950, p. 4. Letter to the editor decrying lack of medical services in a small town, hoping “our screams will not be in a valley but will find receptive ears from the authorities.”](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Al-Yawm%20Image%20for%20website_0.jpg?itok=mT_KEIVI)
Insights on Israel’s Palestinians from a Rare Arab-language Newspaper
CRL's newspaper collection played a critical role in shaping Brothers Apart, a study of Arab Israeli citizens in the 1950s-1960s by University of Arizona professor, Maha Nassar.!["The Cleveland Call and Post," September 10, 1955, African-American newspaper from CRL collections.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Emmett_Till_CallandPostNews_c.jpg?itok=zOp4V_e9)
CRL Supports Research on Biased News Coverage of Emmett Till
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.![“La politica porfirista según Pineda,” from Hijo del Ahuizote [Mexico, Agosto 3 de 1902], [Año XVII, Tomo XVII, Num. 822, pp. 1418–1419] CRL collections http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b2843643~S1](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/cornell-latin.jpg?itok=20SQO_Yv)
CRL Resources Integral to Cornell’s Latin American Journals Project
Cornell University utilized CRL resources to support its Latin American Journals project, a digital portal to political, cultural and popular serials from the region.![Completion of month-long voting period in India. Photo by Goutam Roy, Al Jazeera English, 2009. http://flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/3528881444/ Voting ends (Accessed October 26, 2016)](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/india_voting_crl_stories.png?itok=LCtRmxQ_)
South Asia Specialist’s Research Enriched by CRL Collections
Wendy Singer, Kenyon College professor, explains how CRL collections supported her original research on Indian social policy and elections.![“Exciting Moments” [“Tomato Calypso,” performed by the Tempos]. Sunday Mirror, Accra, Ghana. August 30, 1953, p. 9.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/GhanaianStory3%20%283%29.png?itok=A7V9mV_D)
Documenting Ghanaian Social Change Through the Music Scene
Alison K. Okuda, New York University postdoctoral teaching fellow and lecturer, attests to the importance of CRL’s African newspaper collection to her dissertation on, “Caribbean and African Exchanges: The Post-Colonial Transformation of Ghanaian Music, Identity, and Social Structure.”![Mech i voliá (Sword and Freedom), v. 1 nos. 3–4 Oct.–Nov. 1951](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/mech-i.jpg?itok=w5qhmmFV)
Window Into Lives of Ukrainian Refugees, 1945-1954
In 2015, the Slavic and East European Materials Project at CRL (SEEMP) completed digitization of the Ukrainian Émigré Press Collection, encompassing some 90 titles published between 1945–1954, and now dispersed in collections in Toronto, Cambridge, and New York.![Cover page of the volume of documents relating to Archduke Franz Ferdinand. German Foreign Ministry Archives, CRL.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/d6/highlight_images/Researching_the_Habsburg_Empire.png?itok=QDwQfCzk)
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.![Front page of <em>Muhammad Speaks</em>, April 2, 1971.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Nation_of_Islam_Paper_Featured_Documentary_Film.jpg?itok=l1sDIVzM)
Nation of Islam Paper Featured in Documentary Film
CRL's extensive holdings in African-American newspapers proved useful to a documentary film chronicling heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali's politicization.![26th MEU Secure Freeport of Monrovia, 2003. Wikimedia Commons.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/26th_MEU_secure_Freeport_of_Monrovia.jpg?itok=BokGlrkC)
Preserving News from Conflict Zones
CRL programs aim to preserve "first drafts of history" from zones of conflict throughout the world.![Gandhi During the Salt March, 1930. Wikimedia Commons.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Gandhi_during_the_Salt_March2.jpg?itok=82za1jTl)
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."![](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/the_saigon_post_cleaned_0.jpg?itok=EwWDtFJk)