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CRL 2020 Annual Meeting a Success in the Midst of COVID-19
29 Apr 2020

CRL welcomed a record-breaking 360 registrants to its virtually held 2020 Annual Meeting, Context and Community: The Center for Research Libraries at 70, April 23-24. The first segment of the meeting focused on governance, followed by timely yet essential conversations on topics of leadership in moments of crisis.

CRL Negotiates Extraordinary Access to Gale Primary Sources
9 Apr 2020

CRL negotiates extraordinary access to archival and special collections content from Gale Primary Sources to assist students, faculty, and staff at CRL member institutions working remotely in response to COVID-19. CRL members have unlimited access to a number of archives and customized webinars in Gale Primary Sources from now until June 30, 2020.

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Global Press Archive Alliance Makes First In-Copyright Collection Available
18 May 2020

The CRL Charter Alliance will deliver a substantial body of digital news content to users worldwide while three in-copyright collections negotiated by East View Information Services will  be made available to all CRL member institutions. 

CRL Announces 2020 PSA Winners
29 Apr 2020

CRL has named three award recipients in its annual Primary Sources Awards (PSA) competition. The awards promote awareness of the creative use of materials in the major areas collected by CRL: newspapers, archives, government documents, and journals.

CRL Partners with EBSCO to Expand Access
6 Apr 2020

CRL has arranged for its members to gain access to EBSCO collections for the remainder of the academic year.

CRL Reduces Access Barriers to Nearly 10,000 Digitized Titles
3 Apr 2020

CRL has reduced access barriers to nearly 10,000 titles previously digitized (in whole or in part) through on-demand and strategic scanning.

CRL Digital Resources for Those Working Remotely
16 Mar 2020

CRL has numerous online resources available to researchers and scholars working remotely.

LLMC Receives CLIR Funding to Complete Early State Records
10 Mar 2020

CLIR's Digitizing Hidden Collections award, combined with the patronage of CRL and LLMC institutions, will complete the digitization of a nearly 2,000 microfilm reel set of Records of the States of the United States of America.

CRL Opens African News Content
12 Feb 2020

CRL's commitment to investment in Open Access digital resources now includes more than 400,000 pages of early African newspapers available worldwide via CRL’s Digital Delivery System.

PAN Meeting Notes from Midwinter 2020
7 Feb 2020

Notes and Updates from the 2020 Midwinter PAN meeting

TRAIL Welcomes 51st and 52nd Members
4 Feb 2020

TRAIL (the Technical Report Archive & Image Library) welcomes new members Syracuse University and The Ohio State University, which support TRAIL's work in identifying, cataloging, digitizing, and providing unrestricted permanent access to U.S. government agency technical reports.

LAMP Funds Preservation of Architectural Photos of Havana
28 Jan 2020

Thousands of architectural photos of Havana's historic central district are now accessible openly, thanks to funding from LAMP.
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