The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international membership organization of research libraries committed to building, stewarding, and sharing a wealth of resource materials from all world regions to support research and teaching. As a cooperative venture, CRL’s mission, vision, values, and strategy are guided and governed by CRL’s Board of Directors, elected by members of the CRL Council of Voting Members.

This past summer, Dr. Jennifer L. Jenkins joined CRL in the role of part-time Communications and Membership Coordinator; on November 1, she transitioned into the full-time position of CRL’s Head of Membership Engagement and Communications. In this expanded role, Jen will engage with and better get to know colleagues at CRL member institutions, which will inform how CRL articulates and communicates the benefits of CRL membership for our member institutions.

As the Center for Research Libraries prepares for a leadership transition, we sat down with CRL President Greg Eow to talk about the accomplishments of his tenure and what the CRL community can look forward to in the years ahead. 

The Center for Research Libraries is excited to announce that Jacob Nadal, currently the Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress, will succeed Greg Eow as CRL President, effective November 18, 2024. Nadal is a nationally recognized expert on preservation who has served in leadership roles at a variety of independent, academic, and government organizations.

The Center for Research Libraries and Saint Louis University Libraries are pleased to announce that SLU has joined CRL as its newest full-voting member. 

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is pleased to announce an updated model license agreement which reflects a community-generated template that addresses some of the most pressing challenges in the emerging scholarly communications landscape.

CRL’s Licensing and Acquisitions Team is seeking member feedback.

The new three-year open publishing agreement provides seven NERL member institutions with read access to the entire corpus of Springer journals and permits eligible authors to publish open access, with fees covered, in hybrid journals across the Springer portfolio

The CRL Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointments to the CRL President Search Committee.   The CRL Executive Committee received an outstanding expression of interest from member directors in response to their open solicitation for search committee members. The Executive Committee carefully reviewed and appointed search committee members that represent many of the various organizational types and perspectives among CRL membership. Constituting the 2024 CRL President Search Committee are: 

The CRL Licensing and Acquisitions Team seeks suggestions and input from members of the community on the CRL Model License.