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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
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
• 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 Digitization
• World Newspaper Archive
• LLMC-Digital
• French / Cuban pamphlet projects
– World Digital Library
– Chinese Rare Books digitization
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]
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
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