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The Center for Research Libraries welcomes new members to its board of directors.

CRL has been awarded a planning grant from the MacArthur Foundation to develop an operable strategy for preserving recent Mexican human rights documentation.

Center for Research Libraries announces that its board of directors has appointed Gregory Eow as president.

CRL's commitment to Open Access investment in digitization now includes more than 1.2 million pages of Latin American newspapers available worldwide via CRL’s Digital Delivery System.

TRAIL member representative Laura Sare of Texas A&M University has been appointed to the Depository Library Council (DLC).

CRL's partner LLMC recently implemented a new viewer to support intuitive browsing and navigation at the document level.

CRL welcomes new members for FY2019

Thanks to support from two member libraries, CRL will acquire two collections through its 2019 Shared Purchase Program.

The Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM) recently preserved several newspapers from Indonesia.

SAMP has digitized two rare and valuable Gujarati women's journals: Strī bodh (issues from 1858-1941) and Sundarī subodha (issues from 1904-1923).

The PAN Forum met Friday, January 26, 2019, in Seattle Washington for another informative event.

The Global Press Archive Charter Alliance will digitize and make available to all CRL member institutions 4.5 million pages of recent international newspaper content, with a significant portion of material to be made available in Open Access.

SAMP has digitized holdings of the newspaper Svadeśa for the years 1919-1929.  This newspaper was published in Hindi in the city of Gorkhpur.

CRL voting member libraries have approved the acquisition of five primary source collections with an estimated list price value of $218,070. Once acquired, the collections will be available through interlibrary loan from CRL.

TRAIL Welcomes 50th Member

December 14, 2018

TRAIL (the Technical Report Archive & Image Library) celebrates a major membership milestone by welcoming Virginia Tech as its 50th institutional member.

The Center for Research Libraries is the recipient of a major grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support planning for the next phase of the World Digital Library.

Shared print meeting held in Charleston to discuss improvements to the OCLC WorldCat database and CRL's Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR).

The Center for Research Libraries has issued a new report on CLOCKSS that updates the findings of its initial TRAC certification audit, performed in 2014. 

During its 2018-2019 funding cycle, Project CERES funded two proposals for the digitization and preservation of agricultural publications spanning 1913 to 1988. The projects include collections from the University of Tennessee and Colorado State University.

MARC records for technical reports digitized by TRAIL can now be retrieved from OCLC's WorldShare Metadata Services, Collection Manager.