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CRL Connect | October 27, 2014
News about CRL events, activities, collections, and services. For more information, visit www.crl.edu. 
New Electronic Resource Offers
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has extended offers to CRL members for purchase of a number of their products. In addition to preferential pricing, Gale is offering three services included with purchase: Data Mining and Textual Analysis, Curriculum Alignment, and the Artemis cross-search platform. For more information about these offers and others such as Alexander
Street Press’ Engineering Case Studies Online, log in to eDesiderata.
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Simon New CRL Vice President of Collections and Services
On September 29, 2014, James Simon was named CRL Vice President of Collections and Services. Simon is now responsible for CRL departments that build and care for CRL collections and that directly serve CRL members and constituencies: Access Services, Stack Management, Facilities, and Technical Services. Simon will also continue to be responsible for collection development and international resources.    
CSPC Appoints Five New Members
In September 2014, the CRL Collections Services and Policy Committee (CSPC) welcomed five new members. New representatives with a diversity of experience will support CRL’s primary governance committee pertaining to collections.
CRL Explores Problems
with E-government Records  
A CRL-sponsored panel at the ARL fall membership meeting on October 8 continued exploration of challenges to the accessibility and integrity of born-digital government records initiated at Leviathan, CRL’s April 2014 Collections Forum. Speakers called for libraries to advocate for greater accountability and transparency in federal records management. An account of the ARL panel is summarized in Inside Higher Ed; a strategic framework for future CRL efforts in this important arena can be found in CRL’s FOCUS on Global Resources.
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Events
Open to all librarians and researchers at CRL member institutions.
TOMORROW
Tuesday, October 28
1:30–2:30 p.m. Central Time
Previous CRL webinars on text and data mining revealed that interest is high among librarians in how researchers are using big data and large bodies of text. This webinar will explore how the Economist Intelligence Unit supported two major research projects at Duke University and Harvard. Presenting will be Robin Bew, Managing Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit, and Chris Pearce, Director, EIU Data Services.
Friday, January 30
2:00–4:00 p.m. Central Time
Librarians and library staff visiting Chicago for ALA Midwinter 2015 are invited to participate in a CRL collections and facility tour. Don’t miss this informative look at CRL operations and collections. CRL staff will be on hand to discuss new developments in our services, including digitization and offers for electronic resources, as well as expanded access to primary source collections.
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