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Newberry Library and Center for Research Libraries announce cooperative plan
The Newberry Library, Chicago’s pre-eminent humanities research library, and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) have agreed to inaugurate a program of inter-institutional cooperation. The program stresses improved access to each other’s collections as well as joint projects in preservation and collection development.
Newberry Library fellows may now use CRL’s unrestricted collections on site at the Newberry or through interlibrary loan. The Newberry in turn is offering to CRL member institutions, via interlibrary loan, materials from its collection of American Indian studies on microform. Newberry Library collections have traditionally not been available for loaning to other libraries.
The two institutions are planning cooperative collection development to extend their resources. Mutually beneficial collaboration in preservation and conservation will blend the extensive experience of CRL in preservation microfilming with the significant expertise in conservation and restoration practices of the Newberry staff, which has been a leader in this field.
A joint working group has been established to recommend procedures for implementing all areas of cooperation.
The Newberry Library, which celebrates its 100th birthday this fall, houses collections in history and the humanities from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The Newberry awards some $300,000 annually in fellowships for research in residence, sponsors four centers for scholarly research, and conducts numerous outreach programs to draw public attention to its collections.
The Center for Research Libraries was founded in 1949 to provide a means by which the libraries of major research institutions can practice cooperative collection development and management. The Center’s prinicipal program is the acquisition and preservation of a dedicated-to-lending collection, now exceeding 3.6 million volumes and 1.2 million microfilm units, that complements and supplements the collections of its 150 member institutions. ■ ■
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