Cooperation in Constricting Times Models and Prospects The

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 Celestial Empire (Shanghai) China Mail (Hong Kong) China Press (Shanghai) Hong Kong Daily Press Hong Kong Telegraph North-China Daily News North-China Herald South China Morning Post [1827 -1843] [1874 -1927] [1845 -1968] [1914 -1949] [1864 -1941] [1881 -1951] [1855 -1951] [1850 -1941] [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. 5 m 2009

Chinese Pamphlets Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China

Collaborative Programs ………………

Area “Microform” Projects CAMP – Cooperative Africana Materials Project LAMP – LAMP MEMP – Middle East Microform Project SAMP – South Asia Microform Project SEAM – Southeast Asia Microform Project SEEMP – Slavic & East European Microform Project

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 Germanlanguage databases – World Biographical Information System (WBIS) – Digi. Zeitschriften (“German JSTOR”) – Brockhaus / Duden Encyclopaediae

Community ………………

Thank You James Simon Director, Global Resources Network simon@crl. edu