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CRL’s quarterly publication examining the challenges of preservation and access for primary source materials in various fields.
Topic Guides
Providing insights on key source materials in areas of special interest to CRL libraries.
News
CRL Assessing Donations Policy
21 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023
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Thomas Padilla Named Director of Information Systems and Technology Strategy at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
8 Mar 2021
8 Mar 2021
USMAI Is First Consortium to Join CRL Under New Consortium Membership Model
18 Feb 2021
18 Feb 2021
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First Principles and Values: Black Lives Matter
15 Jun 2020
15 Jun 2020
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CRL Announces 2020 PSA Winners
29 Apr 2020
29 Apr 2020
Past Events
Webinar: CRL Updates / September
25 Sep 2019 - 2:00pm
25 Sep 2019 - 2:00pm
Webinar: Portico e-Book Preservation – Progress Made, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions
5 Apr 2017 - 2:00pm
5 Apr 2017 - 2:00pm
CIFNAL Speaker Series: " Access to Literature by Black Canadians"
20 Oct 2023 - 11:00am
20 Oct 2023 - 11:00am
TRAIL Information & Update Session
25 Jun 2023 - 1:00pm
25 Jun 2023 - 1:00pm
TRAIL Annual Meeting 2023
7 Jun 2023 - 8:00am
7 Jun 2023 - 8:00am
Blog Entries
The Impact of CRL
Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.
![Image caption: Stanford School of Medicine researcher Hannah Wild with satellite imagery of nomadic settlements. Image courtesy of Stace Maples, Stanford Geospatial Center.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/2018_AR_BigData.jpg?itok=V6_lRscX)
Helping Libraries Deal with ‘Big’ Data
At CRL’s 2018 Global Collections Forum, Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Head of Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections at Stanford University Libraries, discussed how satellite imagery and large geospatial datasets are being used as source materials for scholars in a variety of disciplines, and the new types of library support they require.!["The Cleveland Call and Post," September 10, 1955, African-American newspaper from CRL collections.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Emmett_Till_CallandPostNews_c.jpg?itok=zOp4V_e9)
CRL Supports Research on Biased News Coverage of Emmett Till
Students of Professor Davis Houck at Florida State University consulted CRL resources to examine media bias covering the death of civil-rights icon Emmett Till.![Front page of <em>Muhammad Speaks</em>, April 2, 1971.](https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crl_wide/public/highlight_images/Nation_of_Islam_Paper_Featured_Documentary_Film.jpg?itok=l1sDIVzM)