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CSPC Activates International Collections and Content Group
27 Aug 2020

The standing working group reporting to CSPC will play a substantive role in shaping, implementing, and maintaining CRL’s approaches to international collection management.

Remembering Donald Simpson
26 Aug 2020

The Center for Research Libraries’ (CRL) collections are built, catalogued, preserved, and made available by dedicated people. Recently, CRL learned of the passing of one such individual, Donald (Don) Simpson, CRL’s president from 1980-1999.

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SEAM Preserves Indonesian newspapers Tifa Irian and Tifa Papua
17 Sep 2020

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) has preserved two newspapers from Jayapura, Indonesia:  Tifa Irian (1993-1997) and Tifa Papua (2000-2004).

Primary Legal Resources from Berlin State Library Digitized by LLMC
14 Sep 2020

CRL's partner LLMC has digitized many primary legal documents from the Berlin State Library, which are now available to CRL libraries.  These materials complement other German resources in LLMC's collection that were sourced from other libraries, including the University of Pennsylvania's Biddle Law Library, the Library of Congress, and many others.

European Studies Statement on Collection Development, Access, and Equity in the Time of COVID-19, Issued by CIFNAL, GNARP, and SEEMP
20 Aug 2020

CIFNAL, GNARP, and SEEMP have issued the following "European Studies Statement on Collection Development, Access, and Equity in the Time of COVID-19"

LAMP Digitizes Newspapers and Archives from Argentina
14 Aug 2020

The Latin American Materials Project (LAMP) supported the digitization of several newspapers and sets of archival material compiled by Memorias de la Patagonia Austral, a project of Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Bibliotecas y Archivos. 

Purchase Proposal Nominations Deadline: September 30th
11 Aug 2020

This is a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit nominations for the FY21 Purchase Proposal Program is September 30, 2020. This program is one of the ways our research library community collectively builds, stewards, and shares materials to support inspired research and teaching. 

TRAIL's Summer 2020 Newsletter
3 Aug 2020

The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) has released its Summer 2020 Newsletter, which provides important program updates.

CRL Negotiates Extraordinary Access to East View Newspaper Archives
31 Jul 2020

As a research Library, CRL shares its members’ strong interest in access to contemporary news content to support research and teaching without geographic or linguistic limits.

SEEMP Digitizes Ukrainian-American Catholic Newspaper 'Ameryka'
22 Jul 2020

The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) has digitized issues of the Ukrainian Catholic newspaper Ameryka, published in Philadelphia.

CRL and East View Release Third Open Access Collection
22 Jul 2020

CRL and East View Information Services have released the Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers, the third Open Access collection of titles digitized under the Global Press Archive (GPA) CRL Charter Alliance. This collection adds to the growing collection of Open Access material available through East View's Global Press Archive program.

CRL Member Libraries Stand in Solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement
26 Jun 2020

Earlier this month, we shared a letter from CRL's President with a foreword from CRL's Head of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives. In our statement, we affirmed CRL's long-standing position as a global organization that prides itself on the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and our dedication to helping the stories of marginalized people be told and their voices be heard. The impact of the recent demonstrations has been, and continues to be, profoundly felt, first-hand, within the CRL community.
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