Find CRL Staff and Events at 2014 ALA Annual Conference

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

A number of CRL staff members will attend this year’s ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, June 26–July 1, to report on, and gather input for, CRL programs. To schedule a time to meet with one of our team, just e-mail the appropriate contact below:

CRL-related ALA Events:

Print Archiving Network Forum: The PAN meeting will be held on Friday, June 27, from 9 to 9:45 a.m.; a special session follows from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This ALA Annual Conference Session, “Looking to the Future of Shared Print,” and the PAN meeting are open to all. Please feel free to forward this announcement. The PAN agenda and other details can be found at: http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/misc/PANAgendaAN2014Finl.pdf.

NERL Program Council Meeting: Friday, June 27, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Steering Committee of the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL): Saturday, June 28, from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.

Steering Committee of the German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP): Sunday, June 29, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Technical Report Archive & Image Library Information and Update session: Sunday, June 29, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

 

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.”