Highlights from the 2017 PAN Forum at #ALA annual conference titled, “Validation of Shared Print Collections.”

The TRAIL collection now contains more than 61,500 federal technical reports, including over 4.5 million pages of content.

A number of CRL staff members will attend this year’s American Library Association Annual Conference to report on and gather input for CRL programs.

CRL and partners continue their support for preservation and digtiization of historical agricultural publications through Project CERES

CRL libraries are helping grow and strengthen the print journal holdings maintained under the Global Resources Partnership in Science, Technology and Engineering, to ensure the availability of knowledge resources vital to research and learning.

Highlights from the January 2017 PAN Updates.

A number of CRL staff members will attend this year’s ALA Midwinter Conference in Atlanta, January 20-24, to report on, and gather input for, CRL programs.

CRL digitization recently reached another milestone: over 25,000 titles digitized from CRL collections are now hosted on CRL's DDS platform, available to researchers at CRL member institutions.

ProQuest's metadata digitized newspapers provides valuable data on publication history and product coverage in key databases for academic research.

The dashboard, developed as a result of recent community discussions, provides a high-level view of the progress of shared print archiving efforts.

Project Ceres grants a total of $48,839.43 to projects from five universities. 

TRAIL is in the top 25 of HathiTrust content contributors, with more than 39,000 volumes of technical reports originally published by the US Government.

LAMP recently microfilmed the contemporary Mexican newspaper El Diario de Juárez for the years 2008-2010.

CRL's extensive work with serials data and holdings records is benefiting member institutions' assessment and disclosure of serial holdings for archiving.

Who from CRL will be at ALA Midwinter 2016 in Boston and where to find them.

Following the announcement that Portico will now archive EBSCO Digital Archives products in its D-Collections program, representatives of CRL libraries heard more about the expanding program in two conference calls with Portico. CRL has updated the provider profile and review of Portico in eDesiderata.

Three major publishers of news databases have begun to provide detailed metadata to the International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) database.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has completed a preservation audit of Canadiana.org, and on the basis of that audit certified Canadiana as a trustworthy digital repository.

Preserving America's Print Resources II: a North American Summit was convened by CRL at ALA 2015 in order to discuss how CRL can further support the archiving and sharing of print serial collections by North American libraries.

Project Ceres—a collaboration between USAIN, AgNIC, and CRL—supports projects that preserve print materials essential to the study of agriculture and make those materials accessible through digitization.