TRAIL's Winter 2021 Newsletter

Waananen, A. O. & Crippen, J. R. Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in California, report, June 1977; United States. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc968072/), p. 19

Thursday, February 25, 2021
Contact: 
Judy Alspach - jalspach@crl.edu
Program: 

TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library) has released its Winter 2021 Newsletter, which contains updates regarding:

  • TRAIL's Upcoming Annual Meeting - save the date
  • Processing Update
  • Microcard Scanning Project Status
  • Tech Report Highlight

TRAIL identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes, and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports. TRAIL currently consists of over four dozen member institutions whose annual membership fees and volunteered staff time further the efforts of the project. The mission of TRAIL is to ensure preservation, discoverability, and persistent open access to government technical publications regardless of form or format. TRAIL provides unrestricted access to these digitized technical reports through the TRAIL Search Interface. Millions of pages of elusive technical reports are now discoverable, thanks to the collaborative effort of TRAIL members.

The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

CRL and Linda Hall Library partnership brings history of science to researchers' fingertips

Ben Gibson, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Linda Hall Library, discusses the fruits of the library's digitization projects with CRL.

Helping Libraries Deal with ‘Big’ Data

At CRL’s 2018 Global Collections Forum, Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Head of Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections at Stanford University Libraries, discussed how satellite imagery and large geospatial datasets are being used as source materials for scholars in a variety of disciplines, and the new types of library support they require.