CRL collects materials directly through purchase, exchange, deposit, and born-digital ingest.

The fifth installment of its kind, the collection encompasses over 265,000 digitized pages from 65 publications.

CRL's newly appointed International Collections and Content Group (ICC) calls on the international library programs based at CRL to explore the challenges and opportunities in front of our communities and through that exploration, to consider new ways of working together. 

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is pleased to announce the results of the 2021 Purchase Proposal Program ballot. This year, CRL members voted to acquire four new collections representing a broad range of research interests across the membership. 

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.

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.

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) has preserved two newspapers from Jayapura, Indonesia:  Tifa Irian (1993-1997) and Tifa Papua (2000-2004).

As a research Library, CRL shares its members’ strong interest in access to contemporary news content to support research and teaching without geographic or linguistic limits.

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

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) recently preserved several newspapers from Indonesia.

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.

CRL voting member libraries have approved the acquisition of ten microform, reprint, and CD/DVD collections through the 2018 Purchase Proposal Program. List price value $132,538 (depending on the exchange rate). Once acquired, the collections will be available through interlibrary loan from CRL.  

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) has digitized two Philippine comic book titles from the mid-20th century, Espesyal Komiks and Pilipino Komiks.

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) recently microfilmed issues from May 2000 - April 2002 of  Xin sheng ri bao (Harian Hidup Baru), an Indonesian newspaper published primarily in Chinese.

LLMC (Law Library Microform Consortium) has digitized a collection of early legal publications from Myanmar (Burma).  The material covers 1872-1955.

The Center for Research Libraries will purchase six valuable microform and reprint collections through this year’s Purchase Proposal Program, with a list price value of $220,987. These sets will soon be available through interlibrary loan from CRL.

SEAM (Southeast Asia Materials Project) has microfilmed the years 1992–2005 of the Indonesian newspaper Harian Sore Garuda.

The Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM) has microfilmed issues of Radar Bogor from 1999 to 2011.

The Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM) recently completed the microfilming of several years of the Malaysian newspaper Harakah.

SEAM has microfilmed more than ten years of this title from Jayapura, West Papua, Indonesia.