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CRL Welcomes New President Jacob Nadal
September 3, 2024
The Center for Research Libraries is excited to announce that Jacob Nadal, currently the Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress, will succeed Greg Eow as CRL President, effective November 18, 2024. Nadal is a nationally recognized expert on preservation who has served in leadership roles at a variety of independent, academic, and government organizations.
CRL Welcomes Newest Member: Saint Louis University
August 6, 2024
The Center for Research Libraries and Saint Louis University Libraries are pleased to announce that SLU has joined CRL as its newest full-voting member.
Recent News
CRL and NERL Announce Model License Language
June 25, 2024The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is pleased to announce an updated model license agreement which reflects a community-generated template that addresses some of the most pressing challenges in the emerging scholarly communications landscape.
Help Us Evaluate eDesiderata!
June 5, 2024CRL’s Licensing and Acquisitions Team is seeking member feedback.
The new three-year open publishing agreement provides seven NERL member institutions with read access to the entire corpus of Springer journals and permits eligible authors to publish open access, with fees covered, in hybrid journals across the Springer portfolio
CRL President Search Committee Appointed
March 25, 2024The CRL Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointments to the CRL President Search Committee. The CRL Executive Committee received an outstanding expression of interest from member directors in response to their open solicitation for search committee members. The Executive Committee carefully reviewed and appointed search committee members that represent many of the various organizational types and perspectives among CRL membership. Constituting the 2024 CRL President Search Committee are:
CRL Seeks Member Input on Model License Language
February 27, 2024The CRL Licensing and Acquisitions Team seeks suggestions and input from members of the community on the CRL Model License.
CRL Global Collections Advisory Task Force Established
February 20, 2024The CRL Board of Directors is pleased to announce the new Global Collections Advisory Task Force. The Global Collections Advisory Task Force will actively engage CRL community stakeholders and gather membership feedback as we move forward with CRL’s reinvestment in its longstanding mission to collectively build, preserve, and share global collections at scale in service to scholarship.
Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Launches Second Ukrainian Collection
December 21, 2023Robert Van Rennes to Join CRL Licensing & Acquisitions Team
November 28, 2023The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is pleased to announce that Robert Van Rennes will join CRL’s growing licensing team as the new Licensing Librarian. Currently Associate Director of Library Initiatives at the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), Van Rennes comes to CRL with a wealth of experience in licensing.