The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) a grant of $350,000, for continued support of the International Coalition on Newspapers project (ICON).

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $510,000 to the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to support strategic initiatives in cataloging, the development of distributed print archives, and cooperative collection development.

Bernard F. Reilly, Jr., has been appointed President of the Center for Research Libraries.

Melissa D. Trevvett, Associate Dean at Loyola University Libraries, has been appointed Vice President and Director of Programs and Services at the Center for Research Libraries.

The Center for Research Libraries has received a $50,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of two important projects dealing with the management of its collections and their increased use by scholars.

CRL has officially launched the Digital South Asia Library, a global effort to make rare and important resources available to the international community.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is providing three new tools on its website to make information about its collections more accessible to research scholars and library staff personnel.

The Center for Research Libraries is pleased to announce that the American Library Association (ALA) has awarded Angela M. Falsey its Christopher J. Hoy/ERT Scholarship.

The Center for Research Libraries will begin its program of acquiring, on deposit, the print copies of journals currently available through JSTOR.