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CRL Welcomes New President Jacob Nadal
September 3, 2024The Center for Research Libraries is excited to announce that Jacob Nadal, currently the Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress, will succeed Greg Eow as CRL President, effective November 18, 2024. Nadal is a nationally recognized expert on preservation who has served in leadership roles at a variety of independent, academic, and government organizations.
CRL Welcomes Newest Member: Saint Louis University
August 6, 2024The Center for Research Libraries and Saint Louis University Libraries are pleased to announce that SLU has joined CRL as its newest full-voting member.
CRL and NERL Announce Model License Language
June 25, 2024The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is pleased to announce an updated model license agreement which reflects a community-generated template that addresses some of the most pressing challenges in the emerging scholarly communications landscape.
Help Us Evaluate eDesiderata!
June 5, 2024CRL’s Licensing and Acquisitions Team is seeking member feedback.
The new three-year open publishing agreement provides seven NERL member institutions with read access to the entire corpus of Springer journals and permits eligible authors to publish open access, with fees covered, in hybrid journals across the Springer portfolio
CRL President Search Committee Appointed
March 25, 2024The CRL Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointments to the CRL President Search Committee. The CRL Executive Committee received an outstanding expression of interest from member directors in response to their open solicitation for search committee members. The Executive Committee carefully reviewed and appointed search committee members that represent many of the various organizational types and perspectives among CRL membership. Constituting the 2024 CRL President Search Committee are:
CRL Seeks Member Input on Model License Language
February 27, 2024The CRL Licensing and Acquisitions Team seeks suggestions and input from members of the community on the CRL Model License.
CRL Global Collections Advisory Task Force Established
February 20, 2024The CRL Board of Directors is pleased to announce the new Global Collections Advisory Task Force. The Global Collections Advisory Task Force will actively engage CRL community stakeholders and gather membership feedback as we move forward with CRL’s reinvestment in its longstanding mission to collectively build, preserve, and share global collections at scale in service to scholarship.
Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Launches Second Ukrainian Collection
December 21, 2023Robert Van Rennes to Join CRL Licensing & Acquisitions Team
November 28, 2023The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is pleased to announce that Robert Van Rennes will join CRL’s growing licensing team as the new Licensing Librarian. Currently Associate Director of Library Initiatives at the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), Van Rennes comes to CRL with a wealth of experience in licensing.
Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Launches First Ukrainian Collection
November 20, 2023CRL Board Announcement on Strengthening Global Collections
November 13, 2023On behalf of the CRL Board of Directors, we write with an update on the current initiative to strengthen CRL’s global programs.
Kevin Merriman Named CRL Director of Global Collections
November 6, 2023The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is delighted to announce that Kevin Merriman, currently Director of Collection Management, Technical and Access Services, and Technology at the Marx Science and Social Science Library at Yale University, will join CRL in January 2024 as the Director of Global Collections. In this new senior leadership position, Merriman will work with the CRL Board of Directors, staff, and broad CRL community to renew and reinvigorate CRL's global collections activities.
Congratulations to NERL Steering Committee, Program Council Leaders
November 3, 2023CRL is pleased to announce the following leadership for the new NERL Steering Committee and the NERL Program Council. The NERL community came together in 2022 to finalize its operational and governance structure as a cooperative program under the CRL organizational umbrella. Charges for the NERL Steering Committee and Program Council were developed by the NERL community and approved by the CRL Board in July 2023. The CRL Nominating Committee issued an open call this summer to secure initial leadership appointments to establish the NERL Steering Committee.
TRAIL's Summer 2023 Newsletter
September 7, 2023TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library) has released its Summer 2023 Newsletter.
NERL Steering Committee Seeks Chair and Vice Chair
August 9, 2023NERL seeks two senior leaders to serve as chair and vice chair on the new NERL Steering Committee. Senior leaders (deans, associate deans, AULs, or equivalent) from the core 30 NERL member libraries are eligible to serve. Nominations of colleagues and self-nominations are welcome.
KBR, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique
The Center for Research Libraries and East View Information Services are pleased to announce two new archives to be released through CRL’s alliance with the East View Global Press Archive. The complete archives of El Mundo (San Juan, Puerto Rico, est. 1919) and Daily Observer (Monrovia, Liberia, est. 1981) will be presented online in Open Access through cooperation with the publications’ rightsholders.
On April 26-27, 2023, CRL held its 74th Annual Council of Voting Members Meeting. The meeting was CRL’s second hybrid gathering, with a welcome return of (limited) in-person attendance alongside virtual attendees. Remarks from the Board Chair