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CRL grows its collections team
January 31, 2022
Welcoming Community Collections Manager Jes Neal, Open Knowledge Licensing Coordinator Melanie Kowalski, and Collections Assistant Ivanna Moreno
NERL and Elsevier continue agreement and develop open access pilot
February 3, 2022
The first of its kind, the retroactive open access pilot agreement opens tens of thousands of articles authored by leading researchers at NERL institutions.
Recent News
CRL's Collections and Services Policy Committee is excited to open a call for participation in the newly formed Sustainable Stewardship and Access Working Group.
Associated institutions in Mexico and the US launch the Repository of Documentation on Disappearances in Mexico
March 21, 2022On March 23-24 the "Truth, Justice, Memory: Documentary Evidence in the Digital Age" conference will take place at El Colegio de México, where the digital platform Repository of Documentation on Disappearances in Mexico (RDDM) will launch.
2022 Purchase Proposal Program Open for Nominations
March 18, 2022Yearly, through the Purchase Proposal Program, CRL members nominate collections for acquisition which are then evaluated and voted on by membership. Once acquired, the materials are available for use by member libraries and their researchers through interlibrary loan. Member participation in the Purchase Proposal Program is one of the ways the CRL community builds a collective collection, providing access to resources that may otherwise be too costly for individual institutions to obtain.
Lanette Garza Joins Team as New NERL Program Manager
March 16, 2022Lanette Garza joins the team as the new NERL Program Manager.
TRAIL Winter 2022 Newsletter
March 2, 2022TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library) has released its Winter 2022 Newsletter, which covers:
Announcing the Spring CIFNAL Speaker Series
January 25, 2022CIFNAL’s Engaging Francophone Partners Working Group announces its spring Speaker Series.
TRAIL Autumn 2021 Newsletter
December 16, 2021Highlights from TRAIL's activities over the past few months, including an annual meeting follow-up.
CRL welcomes new member institutions
December 3, 2021Bates College, Davidson College, and the University of California, Riverside all joined CRL in recent months.
NERL program director Christine Stamison to retire Dec. 31
December 1, 2021“Electronic resource charges are cost-prohibitive, and someone has to go to bat for libraries. Even in the private sector, that was my favorite part of the job: being an advocate.”
Global Press Archive CRL Alliance adds Southeast Asian Newspapers as digital open access collection
November 15, 2021The fifth installment of its kind, the collection encompasses over 265,000 digitized pages from 65 publications.