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FOCUS

CRL’s quarterly publication examining the challenges of preservation and access for primary source materials in various fields.

Official Gazettes & Civil Society Information, Fall 2016

Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Age of Big Data, Summer 2014 - The oceans of information that government agencies produce and collect, along with the fluidity of digital media, require a rethinking of preservation practices. This issue of FOCUS reports on CRL...

The Evolving Supply Chain for Government-Produced Information, Fall 2013 - As governments expose more documents and information directly to the web, the role of libraries in facilitating access to that information is changing. This issue of FOCUS reports on these changes...

Civil Society: Legal and Governmental Resources, Fall 2012 - Civil society and its institutions are topics of growing interest to researchers in a wide range of fields. Documents produced by early governments, courts, and legislatures provide unique...

Government Technical Reports, Fall 2010 - The Fall 2010 issue of our quarterly newsletter explores the preservation of early and rare government technical reports.

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Providing insights on key source materials in areas of special interest to CRL libraries.

Government Publications and Information--Non-U.S.

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Legal Databases: Comparative Analysis

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Government Records and Archives--U.S.

CRL Reports

Chronopolis Audit Report 2012 - The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) conducted a preservation audit of Chronopolis (chronopolis.sdsc.edu) between November 2010 and December 2011, and on the basis of that audit certifies...

Political Communications Web Archive - The Political Communications Web Archive Project was an investigation and planning effort to develop effective methodologies for the systematic, sustainable preservation of Web-based political...

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CRL Assessing Donations Policy
21 Feb 2023

CRL Purchase Proposal Program Results
17 Feb 2021

Primary Legal Resources from Berlin State Library Digitized by LLMC
14 Sep 2020

CRL Digital Resources for Those Working Remotely
16 Mar 2020

LLMC Receives CLIR Funding to Complete Early State Records
10 Mar 2020

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Past Events

The Future of Storytelling: Technology and Knowledge Creation in The New York Times Newsroom
25 Jan 2022 - 2:00pm

CRL Global Resources Collections Forum: "Shared Resources / Common Vision"
24 Apr 2015 - 1:00pm

Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Age of Big Data
24 Apr 2014 - 2:00pm

Webinar: Research Access to Sources on Law and Government
24 Oct 2012 - 2:00pm

TRAIL Information & Update Session
25 Jun 2023 - 1:00pm

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Blog Entries

CRL's Leviathan agenda for digital government information
24 Jul 2014

Report on "Leviathan"
6 Jun 2014

Governments and Research Libraries
6 Nov 2013

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The Impact of CRL

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

Documenting the Legal Record of Precarious Regimes

CRL’s Official Gazettes and Civil Society Documentation website offers published versions of new laws, legislative debates, and court decisions from at-risk regimes.

Excavating Attitudes on Opium Prohibition from Colonial Records

British Colonial Office records held by CRL reveal the dynamics of a robust opium trade in Southeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th century.

LAMP Supports Digitizing of Historic Puerto Rican Court Documents

Nearly 5,000 historical Puerto Rican court documents dating from 1844 to 1900 are now available online.

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