Winter 2006-07 Focus Newsletter Available

Friday, January 5, 2007

This issue highlights CRL resources and activities in support of scholarly research on Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The articles include a profile of the Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP); human rights activities that document recent conflicts in the region; and highlights of CRL collections and resources that support research and teaching.

In This Issue:

  • President’s Message: Eastern and Southeastern Europe
  • Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP)

    An overview of SEEMP’s history, acquisitions, and vital role in identifying, documenting, and acquiring critical research materials on and about the region.

  • A Note on Human Rights Archives

    Observations on the growing international network of human rights organizations—and their burgeoning archival efforts—that coalesced during recent conflicts in Southeastern Europe.

  • Some CRL Resources Related to Eastern and Southeastern Europe

    A sampling of CRL collections, newspapers, radio transcriptions, and other resources that support scholarly research and teaching on the region.

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.

Vanderbilt University digitizes Afro-Colombian oral histories with LARRP grant

The pilot project digitized tapes of interviews conducted by anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, and physician Manuel Zapata Olivella, often dubbed the “dean of Black Hispanic writers.”