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TRAIL's Autumn 2020 Newsletter
28 Oct 2020

The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) has released its Autumn 2020 Newsletter, containing timely updates about the program.

TRAIL's Summer 2020 Newsletter
3 Aug 2020

The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) has released its Summer 2020 Newsletter, which provides important program updates.

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.

TRAIL Representative Laura Sare Named to Depository Library Council
2 May 2019

TRAIL member representative Laura Sare of Texas A&M University has been appointed to the Depository Library Council (DLC).

TRAIL Welcomes 50th Member
14 Dec 2018

TRAIL (the Technical Report Archive & Image Library) celebrates a major membership milestone by welcoming Virginia Tech as its 50th institutional member.

How to Retrieve MARC Records for TRAIL Collection
15 Oct 2018

MARC records for technical reports digitized by TRAIL can now be retrieved from OCLC's WorldShare Metadata Services, Collection Manager.

TRAIL Representative Alice Trussell Honored with Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award
27 Jul 2018

Alice Trussell, an active member of the TRAIL Steering Committee since its founding, has been awarded the Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award for 2018 from the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Eduction.

TRAIL Representative Roberta Sittel Named to Depository Library Council
27 Jun 2018

TRAIL member representative Robbie Sittel of the University of North Texas (UNT) has been appointed to the Depository Library Council (DLC).

Find CRL Staff and Events at 2018 ALA Annual Midwinter Meeting
30 Jan 2018

CRL staff members will be available at ALA's 2018 Midwinter Meeting in Denver, CO, for questions on CRL programs.

TRAIL Welcomes New Members
14 Sep 2017

TRAIL welcomes new members Johns Hopkins University and the Colorado School of Mines.

TRAIL Digital Collection Surpasses 61,500 Items
16 Jun 2017

The TRAIL collection now contains more than 61,500 federal technical reports, including over 4.5 million pages of content.

Office of Saline Waters’ Research and Development Progress Reports digitized by TRAIL
26 Oct 2016

TRAIL has completed digitization of the Research and Development Progress Reports issued by the Office of Saline Waters between 1955 and 1972. The technical reports issued by the Office of Saline Waters are valuable research resources for the study of topics including thermodynamics and water resource policy.

New Members Join TRAIL
26 May 2016

Four institutions recently joined TRAIL (the Technical Report Archive & Image Library).  TRAIL identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.

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.

Atomic Energy Commission Reports Digitized by TRAIL
19 Jan 2016

TRAIL has now digitized over 5,000 technical reports produced by the Atomic Energy Commission, many of which were produced by the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State.

TRAIL Content Surpasses One Million Pages in UNT Digital Library
5 Nov 2015

TRAIL (the Technical Report Archive & Image Library) now has over 1 million pages of content in the University of North Texas Digital Library.

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.

TRAIL Representative Marianne Mason Named to Depository Library Council
28 Apr 2015

Marianne Mason, the TRAIL project's Member Representative from the University of Iowa, has been appointed to the Depository Library Council.

TRAIL Announces New E-mail List TRAILtalk
24 Jul 2013

The Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) has a new email list. TRAILtalk is intended as an information exchange about all things related to TRAIL and technical reports.  

TRAIL Unveils Search Widget
1 Jul 2013

The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) has made a search widget available.  The search widget can be embedded on LibGuides or other webpages to help library patrons find digitized historic federal technical reports.