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ProQuest News Metadata Available in ICON
12 Jul 2016

ProQuest's metadata digitized newspapers provides valuable data on publication history and product coverage in key databases for academic research.

PAPR Launches @Risk Dashboard Beta
14 Jun 2016

The dashboard, developed as a result of recent community discussions, provides a high-level view of the progress of shared print archiving efforts.

Project Ceres Funds Five New Projects
13 May 2016

Project Ceres grants a total of $48,839.43 to projects from five universities. 

TRAIL Digitized Content Continues to Grow
23 Mar 2016

TRAIL is in the top 25 of HathiTrust content contributors, with more than 39,000 volumes of technical reports originally published by the US Government.

Contemporary Mexican newspaper El Diario de Juarez preserved by LAMP
27 Jan 2016

LAMP recently microfilmed the contemporary Mexican newspaper El Diario de Juárez for the years 2008-2010.

CRL Supports Local Print Archives Collection Analysis
5 Jan 2016

CRL's extensive work with serials data and holdings records is benefiting member institutions' assessment and disclosure of serial holdings for archiving.

Find CRL Staff and Events at 2016 ALA Midwinter Conference
18 Dec 2015

Who from CRL will be at ALA Midwinter 2016 in Boston and where to find them.

CRL Hosts Member Conference Calls on Portico D-Collections
9 Dec 2015

Following the announcement that Portico will now archive EBSCO Digital Archives products in its D-Collections program, representatives of CRL libraries heard more about the expanding program in two conference calls with Portico. CRL has updated the provider profile and review of Portico in eDesiderata.

Publishers to Provide CRL Metadata from Newspaper Databases
27 Oct 2015

Three major publishers of news databases have begun to provide detailed metadata to the International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) database.

CRL Certifies Canadiana as Trustworthy Digital Repository
4 Aug 2015

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has completed a preservation audit of Canadiana.org, and on the basis of that audit certified Canadiana as a trustworthy digital repository.

PAPR II Summit Looks at the Future of Print in North American Libraries
2 Jul 2015

Preserving America's Print Resources II: a North American Summit was convened by CRL at ALA 2015 in order to discuss how CRL can further support the archiving and sharing of print serial collections by North American libraries.

Project Ceres Funds Seven New Projects
4 Jun 2015

Project Ceres—a collaboration between USAIN, AgNIC, and CRL—supports projects that preserve print materials essential to the study of agriculture and make those materials accessible through digitization.

Find CRL Staff and Events at 2015 ALA Annual Conference
4 Jun 2015

A number of CRL staff members will attend this year’s ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, June 25-30, to report on, and gather input for, CRL programs.

TRAIL Expands Coverage and Welcomes Personal Members
1 Jun 2015

TRAIL will now collect U.S. government technical reports from all years, doing away with the 1975 cutoff it had previously used.  Following a recent vote of the membership, the TRAIL Bylaws were amended to allow for personal memberships.

CRL Facilities Upgrade
1 May 2015

Over the last several months CRL has undertaken several major upgrades to the facility.  These projects represent the culmination of a multi-year initiative focused on improving the Center’s preservation environment, and increasing energy efficiency.   

Afghan publications preserved by MEMP and SAMP
22 Apr 2015

The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) and the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) contributed funds for the preservation of seventeen newspaper and serial titles published in Afghanistan.

MEMP preserves Baghdad newspapers
12 Feb 2015

The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) has microfilmed several Iraqi newspapers published in Baghdad after the 2003 invasion.

CRL Releases CLOCKSS Audit Report
25 Jul 2014

CRL has released the findings of its preservation audit, and has certified CLOCKSS as a trustworthy digital repository. The certification applies to the repository’s ability to preserve and manage digital content deposited with CLOCKSS by participating e-journal publishers as of May 2014. 

Mellon Foundation Funds CRL Archive Analysis
16 Jan 2014

The Center for Research Libraries recently received funding to support international analysis and planning for archiving and strategic digitization of print journals and newspapers. CRL will use these funds to expand its collecting and analysis of data on archiving and digitization efforts in the two domains, and promote coordinated, strategic action in these areas by libraries and consortia.

CRL Supports LC Preservation of World News
2 Dec 2013

In recent years, CRL’s Area Studies Microform Projects supported the preservation of more than 300 newspaper titles collected by the Library of Congress overseas offices, ensuring scholarly access to more than 450,000 pages of news from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.