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CRL Connect | March 17, 2014
News about CRL events, activities, collections, and services. For more information, visit www.crl.edu. 
FOCUS: International Studies
The new issue of FOCUS on Global Resources reports on responses to “The Global Dimensions of Scholarship and Research Libraries: A Forum on the Future.” The 2012 event explored the perceived problem of decreasing acquisitions of foreign language materials in United States research libraries and the potential impact on scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Vote for Shared Purchase of Collections
CRL's Shared Purchase Program is a cooperative effort to acquire costly major collections and printed sets not included in the CRL Purchase Proposal Program. Any CRL library can pledge funds toward the purchase of any item on the Shared Purchase ballot in this voluntary program. Purchased materials are available for use by all member libraries. This year’s ballot features four collections for possible purchase; the ballot is available on CRL’s eDesiderata site, and the deadline is March 26.
Forum on Digital Government 
New speakers round out the agenda of the upcoming forum “Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Age of Big Data” at CRL. John Bracken, director of The Knight Foundation’s Journalism and Media Innovation program, will talk about how government open data policies have spawned an industry of data-mining and analysis by academic researchers, journalists and the news media. R. Eric Petersen, Congressional Research Service, will discuss challenges posed by digital government to the long-term integrity and accessibility of government records. And James A. Jacobs will take stock of major web archiving efforts by the GPO, NARA, Library of Congress, the Internet Archives, and LOCKSS-USDOCS.
North American Working Group To Revise Model License
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a vigorous overhaul of the LIBLICENSE model license is in progress under the auspices of the Center for Research Libraries.
Events
Open to all librarians and researchers at CRL member institutions.
Wednesday, April 2
2:00–3:00 p.m. Central
CRL’s Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR) aggregates and discloses to the print archiving community serials holdings from significant print archives programs and digital repositories. This webinar for CRL members will provide an overview of PAPR, notably current data and tools available.
April 24–25, Chicago
Join CRL for the 2014 Annual Council Meeting, our largest event of the year. The Business Meeting for directors of CRL libraries will be followed by Leviathan, a two-day Collections Forum focusing on government data (above left).
6050 S. Kenwood Avenue | Chicago, IL 60637-2804 USA
Phone: (800) 621-6044 or (773) 955-4545 | Fax: (773) 955-4339

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