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2025 CRL Council of Voting Members Meeting
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 8:00am to Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 5:00pm
Save the date! On May 20–21, 2025, the CRL community will come together in the annual convening of the Council of Voting Members. The Council of Voting Members meeting plays a critical role in the CRL governance structure. During this annual convening, colleagues from across the CRL community will assess the state of the cooperative and shape its future directions.
Meeting Location
Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601
CRL Webinar: Curation as Misinformation (Prof. Cailin O’Connor, UC Irvine)
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 12:00pm
Dr. Cailin O'Connor, Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, and co-author of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Yale University Press, 2019), spoke on the topic of "Curation as Misinformation" for this CRL webinar.
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PAN Annual 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024 - 9:00am to 11:30am
The Print Archive Network (PAN) Forum is a free and open venue for information sharing about shared print programs. All those with an interest in shared print are welcome to attend and participate. PAN Annual 2024 will be held in person in San Diego.
CIFNAL Speaker Series: "Access to The Haitian Zombie in Academic Collections"
Friday, May 31, 2024 - 1:00pm
We are excited to welcome Kathia Ibacache (University of Colorado, Boulder) to the CIFNAL Speaker Series to speak on " Access to The Haitian Zombie in Academic Collection"
2024 CRL Council of Voting Members Meeting
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 9:00am to Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 2:30pm
Research Integrity: The Center for Research Libraries at 75
PAN Midwinter 2024
Friday, January 19, 2024 - 11:00am
The Print Archive Network (PAN) Forum is a free and open venue for information sharing about shared print programs. CRL supports this work to promote opportunities for libraries and consortia to share information, expertise, and best practices on shared print and the collection lifecycle. PAN Midwinter 2024 will be held online. All those with an interest in shared print are welcome to attend and participate.
CIFNAL Speaker Series: " Access to Literature by Black Canadians"
Friday, October 20, 2023 - 11:00am
We are excited to welcome to the CIFNAL Speaker Series Eva Jurczyk and Daniel Godefroy to speak on "Access to Literature by Black Canadians."
Strengthening CRL Global Collections Community Convening (Phases 2 & 3: Impact and Sustainability Models)
Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Join CRL on Thursday, September 28, for the second community-wide convening of CRL’s process to strengthen and reinvest in global collections. Educopia project leads, Jessica Meyerson and Katherine Kim, will introduce Impact and Sustainability sprint team members to discuss work accomplished through the summer.
This community-wide convening will accomplish the following objectives:
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TRAIL Information & Update Session
Sunday, June 25, 2023 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
TRAIL (Technical Report Archive & Image Library) will hold an Information and Update session from 2:00-3:00 pm Central Time on Sunday, June 25, 2023 in Chicago, IL in conjunction with the ALA Annual Meeting. The session will be held at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. Lincoln Park Boardroom.
PAN Annual 2023
Friday, June 23, 2023 - 9:30am to 11:30am
The Center for Research Libraries sponsors the Print Archive Network Forum (PAN), a biannual meeting held in conjunction with ALA conferences, to share information, expertise and best practices about strategic management of print archive programs. PAN invites libraries and consortia of all sizes to participate.
TRAIL Annual Meeting 2023
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 8:00am to Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 5:00am
Please join the Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) Project on Wednesday - Thursday, June 7-8, 2023 for the 2023 TRAIL Annual Meeting. This meeting will be hybrid, held in-person for the first time since 2019 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA and online. Please share the news with interested colleagues.
Strengthening CRL Global Collections Community Convening (Phase 1: Discovery)
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Join CRL on Wednesday, May 31, for the first community-wide convening of CRL’s process to strengthen and reinvest in global collections. This convening will provide an opportunity for the community to debrief on findings from Phase 1 (Discovery). The Educopia project leads Jessica Meyerson and Katherine Kim will facilitate community conversation and share their analysis of data collected through a robust series of focus groups and targeted interviews.
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"CRL and the Postcolonial Knowledge Commons: From Call to Action to Community Practice" - Greg Eow, CRL President
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
In 2020, the CRL Collections and Services Policy Committee (CSPC) conducted a survey of CRL members, which made clear that the CRL community places global collections at the top of their expressed priorities for our consortia. In 2021, CRL’s International Collections and Content Group (ICCG) issued a Call to Action, which reaffirmed our community’s commitment to global collections, programming, and services.
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2023 CRL Council of Voting Members Meeting
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm
CIFNAL Speaker Series: "Collecting Francophone comic books : illustrated reasons to collect Bande dessinées"
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
We are excited to welcome Aurélie Gadrat from Amalivre. She will speak on "Collecting Francophone comic books : illustrated reasons to collect Bande dessinées"
Her presentation will cover:
GNARP 2023 Midwinter Meeting
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP) Steering Committee will meet on Wednesday, February 22 from 12:00-1:30 p.m.Central Time.
PAN Midwinter 2023
Friday, January 27, 2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Held virtually, PAN 2023 Midwinter is a free and open venue for information sharing about shared print programs.
CIFNAL Meeting
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
CIFNAL will meet on Friday, January 20 from 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.Central Time.
Diversity as Knowledge Series Keynote: Schuyler Esprit, 'The Right to Serendipity: The Unlikely Scenes of Caribbean Knowledge Production'
Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
The 2022 CRL Diversity as Knowledge will explore how centering diversity, inclusivity, and equity in research libraries has implications for enriching the sources for knowing, the ways of knowing, and the quality of knowledge production itself.
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PAN Annual 2022
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 11:00am
CRL promotes opportunities for libraries and consortia to share information, expertise, and best practices for print preservation and management. The Print Archive Network (PAN) Forum is a free and open venue for information sharing about shared print programs. All those with an interest in shared print are welcome to attend and participate.
PAN Annual 2022 will be held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The forum is shortened to two hours to ensure a lively event. It will be recorded for later viewing on CRL's YouTube Channel.
For ongoing communications about the PAN Forum, please join the PAN listserv. Past event pages for PAN presentations and program reports are collected and archived. Older PAN presentations and updates are available in our PAN Event Index. The PAN archive provides access to older content contributed to PAN from 2009 to 2010.