cooperation in constricting times models and prospects the center for research libraries...
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Cooperation in Constricting Times Models and Prospects
The Center for Research Libraries ……………………………
Global Resources Network
CRL Global Resources
251 academic and independent research libraries
CRL Global Resources
251 academic and independent research libraries
A shared collection of 5 million books, journals, archives, documents, and newspapers
CRL Global Resources
251 academic and independent research libraries
A shared collection of 5 million books, journals, archives, documents, and newspapers
Communities of interest identifying and sharing information about critical and at-risk source materials
Coordinated Collections……………………………
Cooperative Resource Development ……………………………
Collaborative Programs
Coordinated Collections ……………………………
• On average, CEAL members are collecting only a fraction of recorded monographic output
• Collecting is relatively static, while production continues to increase
• 27% of collecting is held by 10+ libraries
Cooperative Collection Development
• LARRP Distributed Resources Program
• South Asia Cooperative Acquisition Program
workshop
– Korean Collections Consortium
Cooperative Acquisitions
• CRL Purchase Proposal Program
• Shared Purchase
– NCC Multi-Volume Sets Project
Recent Purchase Proposal Acquisitions
• Shanghai Political and Economic Reports, 1842-1943
• Chinese Filmscript and Advertisement Collection 1946-1985
• Shi shi Xin Bao (The China Times [Shanghai]) 1911- 49
Shared Purchase Acquisitions
• China Inland Mission, Pts 1-2
• British Intelligence on China in Tibet, 1900-1951
Cooperative Resource Development ……………………………
Cooperative Digitization
• World Newspaper Archive
• LLMC-Digital
• French / Cuban pamphlet projects
– World Digital Library
– Chinese Rare Books digitization
World Newspaper Archive
World Newspaper Archive
• Interest in East Asian module(s)?
– Community governed
– Community-sourced content
– Archiving provisions being put in place
English Language Newspapers
• Canton Register [1827-1843]
• Celestial Empire (Shanghai) [1874-1927]
• China Mail (Hong Kong) [1845-1968]
• China Press (Shanghai) [1914-1949]
• Hong Kong Daily Press [1864-1941]
• Hong Kong Telegraph [1881-1951]
• North-China Daily News [1855-1951]
• North-China Herald [1850-1941]
• South China Morning Post [1904-2009]
Chinese Language Newspapers
• Beijing ri bao ( 北京日報 ) [1956-1968]
• Da gong bao ( 大公報 ) [1929-1966]
• Hua zi ri bao ( 華字日報 ) = The Chinese mail [1895-1940]
• Nanfang ri bao ( 南方日報 ) [1949-1969]
• Shen bao ( 申報 ) [1872-1949]
• Shi bao ( 時報 ) (Shanghai) [1909-1937]
• Shun tian shi bao ( 順天時報 ) [1901-1926]
Law Library Microform Consortium
Digital Collections and Services at CRL
• CRL strategic goal: providing research and teaching resources in digital format
• In-house conversion: over 700,000 pages/yr
• Strategic Digitization Programs: 1.5m 2009
Chinese PamphletsPolitical communication and mass education in the early period of
the People's Republic of China
Collaborative Programs ……………………………
Area “Microform” Projects
– Cooperative Africana Materials Project
– LAMP
– Middle East Microform Project
– South Asia Microform Project
– Southeast Asia Microform Project
– Slavic & East European Microform Project
CAMP
MEMP
LAMP
SEAM
SAMP
SEEMP
GRN Projects
– Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections
– Cooperative African Newspapers Project
– Digital South Asia Library
– German-North American Resources Partnership
– Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
– International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON)
GRN Projects: DSAL
• Digital materials for reference and research on
South Asia
– South Asia Union Catalogue
– Linguistic Survey of India gramophone recordings
– Journal preservation / indexing
GRN Projects: GNARP
• Consortial purchase/subscription to German-
language databases
– World Biographical Information System (WBIS)
– DigiZeitschriften (“German JSTOR”)
– Brockhaus / Duden Encyclopaediae
Community ……………………………
