On July 1, 2012, CRL will begin fiscal year 2012-13 with a historic high membership of 267 institutions, including four new members.

A number of CRL staff members will attend this year’s ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, June 21–26, to report on, and gather input for, CRL programs.

The first portion of CRL’s purchase of the complete set of the Archivo General de Centroamérica (Central American Archives, or CAA) has been received and processed. The set is being acquired in three parts through CRL’s Purchase Proposal Program.

Since July 1, 2012, researchers at CRL libraries  have had access to the combined CRL and Linda Hall science, technology, and engineering (STE) print serials.

Why do researchers at some libraries discover and use more CRL collections than others? CRL institutions can raise scholars’ awareness of these valuable resources in a number of ways.

At its recent Annual Meeting, CRL presented the results of a survey of commercially produced news databases purchased or licensed by CRL libraries.

The German North-American Resources Partnership (GNARP), along with its partners BII and the Goethe-Institut New York, announce the two recipients of the GNARP Scholarship 2012, which will promote professional exchanges between librarians from Germany and North America.

New members and officers elected to CRL Board of Directors for 2012–13.

The April 2012 issue (V13N4) of The Charleston Advisor, an online review of electronic resources for libraries, includes a special section devoted to Islam and Middle Eastern e-Resources, as well as a comparative review of five scholarly Open Access publishers, and more.

CRL and the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology have entered into a strategic partnership to preserve and develop historical research collections in the fields of science, technology and engineering.

CRL has negotiated with Gale Cengage highly favorable and unprecedented terms for CRL library purchase of the first four collection modules of the NCCO database.

CRL recently released a short video on how to borrow from CRL for interlibrary loan librarians. This six-minute tutorial also explores digital collections, terms of access, searching CRL’s online catalog, and member programs such as Demand Purchase.

The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) has microfilmed six years of the newspaper D’avat, which was published in New Delhi, India.

CAMP has microfilmed the Senegal publications Siggi and Taxaw.

The Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) has microfilmed five Iraqi newspapers published since 2003.

A partnership between CRL and the Law Library Microform Consortium is digitizing and archiving a significant number of legal publications to support historical research.

The January 2012 issue (V13N3) of The Charleston Advisor, an online review of electronic resources for libraries, features a comparative review of a variety of online tools that facilitate fair use decisions, as well as reviews of Middle East Newsstand, OECD iLibrary, Business Analyst Online, and more.

SEAM has microfilmed more than ten years of this title from Jayapura, West Papua, Indonesia.

CRL announces the release of World Newspaper Archive–Latin American Newspapers, Series 2. This new module will provide more than 1.2 million fully searchable pages of newspapers published in Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

MEMP recently completed a long-standing project to microfilm CRL’s holdings of several Turkish newspapers from the 1940s and ’50s.