The current issue (V11N3) features new reviews of electronic resources for libraries.

CRL announces its new e-mail update.

The collection features such titles as Novo Correio de Modas (1852–54), O Sexo Feminino (1873–89), and A Mai de Familia (Jan 1879–Dec 1888).

Latin American Newspapers reaches 970,000 pages; African Newspapers preliminary release is expected in December.

The 2009 LARRP chair’s report is now available for participants.

The Africa Studies Center (The Netherlands) becomes the newest international member of the Cooperative Africana Microform Project.

Children accidentally aloft in a balloon—information now available in digitized historic American periodicals from CRL.

The University becomes the group’s 29th institutional member.

The University of Pennsylvania is the latest institution to join the German-North American Resources Partnership.

The University of Sheffield (UK) is the newest international member of CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microform Project).  CAMP, founded in 1963, is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to promote the preservation of publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa

The new issue (V11N2) of The Charleston Advisor (TCA), a print and online review of electronic resources for libraries, has been released.

Voting has begun on the CRL FY2010 Purchase Proposal Ballot. This year CRL will allocate $135,000 to the purchase of collections through this program.

The goal of the initiative is to significantly reduce costs, increase accessibility, and foster long-term preservation of journals, newspapers, and government documents for scholars and researchers in the CRL community.

Dramatic new design offers many enhanced features.

In October 2009, CRL surpassed two million pages digitized on request for scholars at member libraries.

LAN approaches 900,000 pages; CRL begins production on African Newspapers.

Montreal, August 2008

In June, 2009, ProQuest launched American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL), which ultimately will contain nearly three million pages of CRL journal content with full-color scans and searchable text.

CRL initiated its new Primary Source Awards program in the fall of 2009. Primary Source Awards will recognize the contributions of research and teaching faculty, librarians and library staff, graduate students, and others within the CRL community for their creative use of primary source materials in three arenas: research, teaching, and access.

The next meeting of the Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) will be held during the MELA Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 19, 2009.