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CRL is a platform for building community and facilitating collaboration among academic and independent research libraries, powered by the knowledge, expertise, ideas, and energy in its community. Festina lente (“make haste, slowly”) is a place where that collective intelligence is shared and those collective efforts are acknowledged and advanced.
Recent Blog Entries
Community and Collective Action
September 5, 2019
CRL's new president Gregory Eow has posted an inaugural blog, Festina lente (make haste, slowly). In it he discusses how research libraries have enormous opportunities—defense of intellectual freedom, celebration of diversity, advocacy of responsible stewardship, promotion of social responsibility and the social good—to leverage proven models of community building and collective action to advance core professional values.
Holes in the Print Safety Net
November 25, 2018
A recent CRL analysis of three major validated JSTOR print archives found that the combined holdings of those archives are short of comprehensive.
Global Collections Initiative: Mexico City Workshop 2018
September 7, 2018
In June 2018 Latin American specialists and librarians from the U.S., U.K., and Latin America gathered in Mexico City to consider and critique findings from CRL's Global Collections Inititative. This is a report from that meeting.
Libraries and the Global Information Supply Chain
August 16, 2018
The 2018 CRL Global Collections Forum examined the evolving global “supply chain” for source materials for research. The present post summarizes the key ideas, and suggests what the new supply chain means for CRL and its community.
CRL's Eighth Decade: A Community Perspective
June 12, 2018
At the 2018 Council of Voting Members meeting members weighed in on two broad strategic directions that emerged from Board and management planning.
A Sea Change (9): Investment in Open Access and Shared Digital Resources
March 27, 2018
Proactive investment in Open Data and shared digital resources might serve CRL libraries and researchers worldwide better than continuing to focus resources on amassing physical collections.
A Sea Change (8): Integrating CRL Print in a North American Shared Collections Network
February 13, 2018
Integrating CRL collections in a North America-wide shared collections network.
A Sea Change (7): CRL's Eighth Decade
February 8, 2018
CRL's legacy of sustained, cooperative collection-building prepares it for confronting new challenges in its eighth decade.
Expanding the Global Resources Network
November 29, 2017
The new Global Collections Initiative is expanding the CRL network of libraries and institutions committed to building and preserving important and endangered resources for area and international studies.
Sustaining Access to News: What We Learned from eDesiderata 2017
November 11, 2017
The conversations at the 2017 eDesiderata Forum exploded the notion that our longstanding print-based approach to preserving news still applies in the digital era, and suggested new strategies.