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FY2006 Purchase Proposal Ballot Complete
22 Dec 2005
If you have questions about the Purchase Proposal Program, please contact Mary Wilke.
Global Resources Fall Newsletter Available
19 Oct 2005
Global Resources Fall Newsletter Available.
Center Unveils New Online Catalog
26 Sep 2005
The Center for Research Libraries has unveiled a new online catalog, allowing researchers additional functionality in searching and displaying the more than one million records in the catalog. The added functionality includes two new search types: a dedicated newspaper search and a combined author and title search.
Catalog Surpasses One Million Records
26 Sep 2005
The Center is pleased to announce that its catalog records have surpassed the one million mark. Since 2002, the cataloging department has added approximately 500,000 records to OCLC and the Center’s catalog, about 125,000 each year.
Center Welcomes Two New Voting Members
1 Sep 2005
Please join the Center’s board and staff in welcoming Temple University and the University of Manitoba as new Voting members, effective September 1, 2005. Temple University is located in Philadelphia and the University of Manitoba is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Starting in September, links to Focus articles will be included in the monthly Informed Librarian Online newsletter, which delivers professional reading with searchable capacity to subscriber desktops.
FOCUS Summer Newsletter Available
29 Jul 2005
The Summer 2005 Focus newsletter reports on important collections and access developments in an exceptionally productive year at the Center.
Five New Voting Members Join the Center
1 Jul 2005
The Center is pleased to welcome as new members the following institutions:
Brigham Young University
New York Public Library
University of Connecticut
University of Montreal
University of South Florida
Global Resources Spring Newsletter Available
17 May 2005
Global Resources Spring Newsletter Available
Hats off to the Center's cataloging staff for producing more than 130,950 catalog records in 2004, including 106,496 for the Center's foreign dissertations collection. Of the total records produced, 63,549 were original to WorldCat.
The University of Hong Kong was established in 1912 and its library, with collections that exceed two million volumes plus a rapidly growing corpus of electronic resources, is the oldest academic library in Hong Kong.
CRL is pleased to announce the results of this year's Shared Purchase Program. With contributions from:
The Center has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop the processes and activities required to audit and certify digital archives.
"Knowledge Biodiversity: the Precarious Economics of Preserving the World’s News" by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.
A paper produced for the Association of College and Research Libraries Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, April 2005
FY05 Shared Purchase Program
7 Mar 2005
The Center for Research Libraries is pleased to announce the FY2005 Shared Purchase Program.
The Center's Annual Meeting, April 14-15 in Chicago, included forums on building an e-CRL and rethinking the fee structure, as well as a facility tour.
Global Resources Winter Newsletter Available
21 Jan 2005
Global Resources Winter Newsletter Available
Please join the Center’s board and staff in welcoming Oklahoma State University as a new Voting member, effective January 1, 2005. Oklahoma State University is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and includes auxiliary campuses in Oklahoma City and Okmulgee.
Lighting Upgrade Grant
21 Dec 2004
The Center has been awarded an Illinois Clean Energy grant of $56,400 to upgrade and modernize the Center’s lighting system on all four floors. The Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, a subsidiary of Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), invests in clean energy development and land preservation efforts to improve environmental quality in Illinois. The grant will enable the Center to upgrade 1,295 fixtures with energy-efficient lamps and install motion-activated on/off switching in the storage areas.
FY2005 Purchase Proposal Voting Completed
17 Dec 2004
FY2005 Purchase Proposal Voting Completed