Librarians and library staff from CRL member institutions are invited to participate in a CRL collections and facility tour during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago in July.

Latin American Newspapers, the initial collection in the World Newspaper Archive (WNA) now contains four titles for searching and browsing. In addition to the first-released Mercurio from Chile, we now have available an extensive run of O Estado de Sao Paulo (1876-1914).

Effective January 1, 2009, Monash University is the newest contributing member of the Global Resources Network. Monash joins CRL member institutions and supporters of the Network in the collaborative effort to expand and enhance access to international scholarly resources.

The World Newspaper Archive advisory committee recommends Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe for future conversion.

ProQuest will introduce a new collection in the ProQuest American Periodicals Series Online, "American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries", which will contain full text and full-color scans of nearly three million pages of CRL journal content focusing on special interest and general magazines from the 19th through the early 20th century.

The GNARP/WESS index to German-Language Newspapers in North America is now available at http://wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/German-Language_Newspaper_Access_in_North_America. Institutions are encouraged to add titles and holdings relevant to German newspapers in their permanent possession.

The Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP) has acquired an extensive run on microfilm of Allgemeine Zeitung (Windhoek, Namibia) from 1949 to 2007. The Allgemeine Zeitung is the oldest newspaper in Namibia, founded in 1915.

Sindhi literary monthly, 1967-1983

The preliminary release of the first World Newspaper Archive collection is now available for member review and comment. The release includes some 60,000 pages of El Mercurio, 1914-22.

The LARRP Annual Report from chair Scott Van Jacob is now available in the LARRP workspace (accessible to LARRP members only; login required).

The Middle East in Microform: A Union List of Middle Eastern Microforms in North American Libraries is now available on the University of Washington’s Web site.

The Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) has acquired Tangier Gazette (variant titles include Al-Moghreb al-Aksa, Tangier Chronicle, and Morocco Gazette) for the dates 1897–1940, 1949–50.

The Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) has received microfilm reels of al-Quds al-Arabi (London) from the period 1989–93 and 1998–2007.  

The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) has acquired microfilm of the Ceylon Times for the period 1863–1907. The Ceylon Times was founded in 1846, becoming Times of Ceylon in 1883 as an evening daily. It was widely read by British officials and merchants as well as Ceylon’s elite.For more details, see the CRL catalog record for this title.

The Latin American Microform Project voted to change its name simply to LAMP, in reflection of its evolving use of digital technologies to serve its original purpose.

The Summer 2008 issue of FOCUS on Global Resources highlights CRL’s collection of nearly 800,000 non-U.S., non-Canadian dissertations. The issue contains: Links to doctoral research produced by Nobel laureates Links to doctoral research produced by notable scholars A scholar’s observations on the “importance and uniqueness” of the collection Notes on changing patterns in access To view this and past issues of FOCUS, visit: http://www.crl.edu/focus/

In June, 2008, CRL surpassed one million pages already digitized for scholars at member libraries. The milestone figure represents the digital conversion of more than 7,500 items to date, all discoverable through the CRL catalog as well as OCLC’s Worldcat.

CRL and Readex team up for the World Newspaper Archive

The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) announces the availability of Rahbar-i Dakan, one of the most influential Urdu papers published in India, for the period 1925–46. SAMP preserved the rare and fragile paper from the collection of the Urdu Documentation Centre in Hyderabad. For more details, see the CRL catalog record for this title.

With the support of 18 member institutions, CRL is acquiring five major microfilm sets through its 2008 Shared Purchase Program. (See below for the names of the 18 members.) The total list cost of these acquisitions, which will benefit all CRL members, is $44,058.