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SAMP Digitizes Svadeśa Newspaper
15 Jan 2019

SAMP has digitized holdings of the newspaper Svadeśa for the years 1919-1929.  This newspaper was published in Hindi in the city of Gorkhpur.

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

The Global Press Archive Charter Alliance will digitize and make available to all CRL member institutions 4.5 million pages of recent international newspaper content, with a significant portion of material to be made available in Open Access.

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CRL to Purchase Five New Collections
11 Jan 2019

CRL voting member libraries have approved the acquisition of five primary source collections with an estimated list price value of $218,070. Once acquired, the collections will be available through interlibrary loan from CRL.

TRAIL Welcomes 50th Member
14 Dec 2018

TRAIL (the Technical Report Archive & Image Library) celebrates a major membership milestone by welcoming Virginia Tech as its 50th institutional member.

CRL Receives Planning Grant for World Digital Library
12 Dec 2018

The Center for Research Libraries is the recipient of a major grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support planning for the next phase of the World Digital Library.

CRL and OCLC Hold Forum on "Infrastructure for Shared Print Collections" Project
12 Nov 2018

Shared print meeting held in Charleston to discuss improvements to the OCLC WorldCat database and CRL's Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR).

CRL Issues Updated Audit Report for CLOCKSS
7 Nov 2018

The Center for Research Libraries has issued a new report on CLOCKSS that updates the findings of its initial TRAC certification audit, performed in 2014. 

Project CERES Announces 2018-2019 Funding Projects
24 Oct 2018

During its 2018-2019 funding cycle, Project CERES funded two proposals for the digitization and preservation of agricultural publications spanning 1913 to 1988. The projects include collections from the University of Tennessee and Colorado State University.

How to Retrieve MARC Records for TRAIL Collection
15 Oct 2018

MARC records for technical reports digitized by TRAIL can now be retrieved from OCLC's WorldShare Metadata Services, Collection Manager.

UK Data Service Portal is 500th eResource in eDesiderata
24 Sep 2018

The recently added UK Data Service, an online data portal featuring UK governmental data, is eDesiderata’s 500th electronic resource entry.

CRL Hosts Historical Documents from Mexican Intelligence Agencies
13 Sep 2018

The Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (MIDAS) contains files from the archives of Mexico’s two principal security services: the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) and the Dirección General de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales (DGIPS).

CRL Reaches 10 Million Page Milestone
1 Sep 2018

CRL supports research and teaching through digitization of timely, critical primary resources for scholars at CRL member institutions. 
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