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Shared Print Collaboration Expands in North America: CRL formally joins both The Partnership and the Rosemont Alliance
January 14, 2021
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL), where students, faculty, and researchers at over 200 member institutions benefit from a wealth of scholarly resources in CRL collections, has joined both The Partnership and the Rosemont Alliance.
Online forum on European Librarianship "New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information"
December 18, 2020
The New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information, an online forum on European librarianship, will take place on select Mondays in January through April 2021.
Recent News
Celebrating 50 Years of the Southeast Asia Materials Project (1970-2020)
December 18, 2020
Virginia Shih, former Chair of the Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM), reflects on the accomplishments of SEAM on the occasion of SEAM's 50th anniversary.
Syrian periodical Ḍifāf preserved by MEMP
December 11, 2020
The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) has microfilmed issues from 2010-2015 of the Syrian publication Ḍifāf.
LARRP Supports Digitization of Post-Revolutionary Mexican Materials
December 10, 2020
LARRP (Latin Americanist Research Resources Project) supported a collaborative project between the University of New Mexico and the Fideicomiso Archivo Plutarco Elías Calles and Fernando Torreblanca (FAPECFT) in Mexico City to digitize over 300,000 images from FAPECFT.
The Slavic and East European Materials Project (SEEMP) has preserved a large set of newspapers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Brazilian Women's Archives digitized with support from Center for Research Libraries
November 30, 2020
The archival collections of nine historic women from Brazil have been made openly accessible by the Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with financial support from the Center for Research Libraries.
CAMP Preserves NewsDay (Harare, Zimbabwe)
November 2, 2020
The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) has preserved issues from 2010 to 2017 of the Zimbabwean newspaper NewsDay.
TRAIL's Autumn 2020 Newsletter
October 28, 2020
The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) has released its Autumn 2020 Newsletter, containing timely updates about the program.
The International Collections and Content Group is a standing working group reporting to CSPC that will play a substantive role in shaping, implementing, and maintaining CRL’s approaches to the development and responsible stewardship of international collections.
SAOA Celebrates 2020 Open Access Week
October 20, 2020
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) celebrates 2020 Open Access Week, from October 19-25, 2020.
The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) has microfilmed issues of the Moroccan Arabic-language newspaper al-Ittiḥād al-Ishtirākī from 1987-1996 and the related French-language newspaper Libération from 1977-1981.