Center for Research Libraries (CRL) website update Mary Wilke 04 Feb 1997 17:57 UTC
UPDATED CRL WEB PAGE AVAILABLE at HTTP://WWWCRL.UCHICAGO.EDU Current information about the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) now is available on the World Wide Web at the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu. An updated web site was released today, with more documents, graphics, and links and an improved, enlivened design. A new feature of the expanded web site is that all of the area studies microform projects administered by CRL also have web pages, some of which are linked to ongoing work in preservation and access: the Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP); the Latin American Microform Project (LAMP); the Middle East Microform Project (MEMP); the South Asia Microform Project (SAMP); the Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM); and the Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP). The area studies project pages include descriptions of the purposes of the projects, bylaws, and meeting minutes. The LAMP page links to the digitized images of Brazilian presidential reports from 1830-1889, a file of material indexed in the Subject guide to statistics in the presidential reports of the Brazilian provinces, 1830-1889, compiled by Ann Hartness. The web page includes CRL historical background, staff directory information, member lists, descriptions of collections and services, and bibliographies of CRL holdings. The web page links to CRLCATALOG, the online public access catalog. The lists of more than 5,800 foreign newspapers, accessible by geographic or title entry, are continually updated as CRL makes additions to this collection component. The What's New page will be updated weekly with news items about CRL events, membership meetings, and web site developments. The Center for Research Libraries, founded in 1949, is the United States' oldest cooperative, membership-based research library. The Center's mission is to make rarely held research materials available to the scholarly community; it does this through (1) managing a collection of more than 5 million volumes that complement and supplement the collections of North American research libraries; (2) delivering materials to researchers worldwide through interlibrary loan and document delivery technology; and (3) operating programs in cooperative collection development and preservation that encourage collaboration among research libraries. CRL serves thousands of researchers and scholars through its 164 member institutions in North America and other institutions worldwide that participate in the six areas studies microfilm projects that CRL administers and other cooperative programs. ### Release date: February 3, 1997 For more information, contact: Linda Naru Director of Member Services The Center for Research Libraries 6050 South Kenwood Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60637-2804 Voice: 773-955-4545 x318 Fax: 773-955-4339 **new area code effective 10/12/96** Internet: naru@crlmail.uchicago.edu ***************************************** ***************************************** Mary Wilke Head of Acquisitions Center for Research Libraries 6050 S. Kenwood Ave Chicago, IL 60637-2804 Tel: (773) 955-4545 ext. 351 Fax: (773) 955-4339