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2008

3/17/08—Mellon Grants CLIR $4.27 Million for Program to Catalog Hidden Collections

2/15/08—Report Examines Issues of Preserving Collections Created by Mass Digitization

2007

7/24/07—Michael Keller Appointed CLIR Senior Presidential Fellow

7/10/07—Mellon Foundation Awards CLIR Grant To Examine Scholarly Utility of Large-Scale Digitization Projects

5/1/07—Charles J. Henry Receives Fulbright Senior Specialist Award for China

4/9/07—Amy Friedlander Named CLIR Director of Programs

3/19/07—Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards CLIR Operating Grant

2006

11/6/06—CLIR Board Elects New Chair, Vice Chair

11/3/06—Charles J. Henry Named CLIR President

8/21/06—Nepal Organization Receives International Award for Development of Rural Community Library System Providing No-Cost Access to Information Technology

6/21/06—Oxford University Joins the Digital Library Federation

6/8/06—Susan Perry Appointed CLIR Interim President

5/3/06—Nancy Davenport Steps Down as President of the Council on Library and Information Resources

3/22/06—Report Assesses Standards and Best Practices for Preserving Sound Recordings

1/10/06—Report Examines Copyright Issues in Digital Preservation of Commercial Sound Recordings

2005

12/16/05—DLF Aquifer Invites Public Review of Metadata Guidelines

11/30/05—Geneva Henry Named Distinguished Fellow

10/27/05—Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize for Open Access: What Does it Take?

10/4/05—The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards CLIR Operating Grant

9/26/05—Report Examines How Digital Technology is Changing Study of American Literature

8/16/05—Bangladeshi Organization Receives Award for Using Traditional Boats and River Networks to Deliver Access to Information Technology

6/1/05—Bibliotheca Alexandrina Joins Digital Library Federation

5/9/05—CLIR Board Elects New Members

3/7/05—Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space

2/5/05—Katherine Kott Named Aquifer Director

2004

11/1/04—CLIR Board Elects New Officers

10/19/04—JISC Joins the Digital Library Federation

9/14/04—Report Examines Barriers to Audio Access

8/24/04—Gates Foundation Awards Libraries in Denmark and China for Providing Free Information Technology to Underserved Communities

8/23/04—Mellon Dissertation Fellowships Offered by CLIR

6/22/04—Study Cites Long-Term Cost Savings from Electronic Journals

6/3/04—Nancy Davenport Named President of CLIR

5/17/04—Outdated Preservation Infrastructure Threatens Access to Information, Report Warns

2/2/04—CLIR Publishes Guide to Business Planning for Cultural Heritage Institutions

1/26/04—British Library Joins Digital Library Federation

1/5/04—CLIR Publishes Essays on Leadership

2003

12/8/03—CLIR Announces Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists

12/8/03—Are Libraries Being Designed for Learning?

10/23/03—CLIR and NIST Publish Guide to Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs

9/9/03—Report Reviews Library User Studies

9/9/03—Report Presents New Visions for Information Access

8/28/03—Mellon Dissertation Fellowships Offered by CLIR

8/5/03—MIT and Rice University Join Digital Library Federation

8/5/03—South Africa's Smart Cape recognized with 2003 Access to Learning Award

7/30/03—Richard A. Detweiler Named CLIR Interim President

7/2/03—Report Examines Models for Shared Print Repositories

7/1/03—Report Examines Sustainability of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives

6/17/03—Deanna Marcum Appointed to Library of Congress

5/10/03—International Initiatives in Digital Preservation:
What are we Learning?

4/30/03—Build A New Library or A New Library Model?

4/25/03—Report Examines Challenges of "New-Model Scholarship"

2/18/03—Report Examines Copyright Issues in Digital Archiving

1/7/03—Survey Examines State of Preservation in American College and Research Libraries

2002

10/18/02—Council on Library and Information Resources and Cornell Launch Web-Based Preservation Tutorial

10/17/02—Report Examines Changing Patterns of Information Use

9/16/02—CLIR and DLF Publish The Digital Library: A Biography

8/22/02—Mellon Dissertation Fellowships Offered by CLIR

8/22/02—Report Examines New Roles for the Research Library

8/20/02—Colombia's BibloRed receives the 2002 Access to Learning Award

8/15/02—Report Highlights International Approaches to Digital Preservation

6/12/02—David Seaman to Head Digital Library Federation

5/20/02—Council on Library and Information Resources Names 2002 A. R. Zipf Fellow

4/11/02—Mellon Foundation Funds Scholarly Communication Institute

4/11/02—First Mellon Dissertation Fellows Selected

3/01/02—DLF Endorses Two New Aids For Developing Digital Library Collections

1/31/02—Report Examines Challenges to Assessing Use of Online Collections and Services

1/22/02—Council on Library and Information Resources seeks applicants for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's international library award

2001

12/20/01—Access to Learning Award Recognizes Commitment to Providing Free Public Access to Information

12/12/01—Report Examines Humanists' Research Needs in Digital Environment

11/30/01—DLF Members Renew Support

11/21/01—Task Force Reports on Saving Historical Evidence

10/01/01—Report Examines Current Approaches to Selection for Digitization

8/27/01—Building Digital Assets or Digital Edsels? New Insight for Campus Executives

8/20/01—Report Examines Business Models for Digital Collections

8/20/01—Report Examines Strategies for Managing the Costs of Commercial Online Materials

6/17/01—What Does it take to Build and Sustain Collections of "Free" Web Resources?

6/14/01—Report Examines Model for Shared Repository

5/10/01—Council on Library and Information Resources Names 2001 A. R. Zipf Fellow

5/3/01—Report Highlights Crisis in Recorded Sound Collections

4/18/01—CLIR to Develop Web-based Tutorials on Preservation for Southeast Asia

4/4/01—Mellon Foundation Funds New CLIR Dissertation Fellowships

2000

12/21/00—CLIR Publishes Survey of Preservation Science Research

10/30/00—Denise Troll Named Distinguished Fellow

10/24/00—CLIR Publishes White Paper on E-Journal Usage Statistics

9/5/00—Documentation Abstracts Inc. Awards Funds for Information Science Institutes

9/1/00—CLIR and DLF Name Distinguished Fellows

8/28/00—Open Archives Initiative Appoints Steering Committee

7/18/00—DLF and RLG Issue Guidelines for Digitizing Visual Resources

6/20/00—CLIR Publishes Guide to Managing Risk of Migrating Digital Information

5/30/00—Anne R. Kenney to Join CLIR

5/25/00—Report Examines Authenticity in the Digital Environment

5/24/00—CLIR and DLF Initiate Program for Distinguished Fellows

5/19/00—Council on Library and Information Resources Names 2000 A. R. Zipf Fellow

4/18/00—Report Explores Use of Knowledge Organization Systems in Digital Libraries

4/7/00—Report Describes Risk-Assessment Model for Managing Cultural Assets

2/17/00—Report Brings Archival Perspective to Problems in Managing Digital Information

1/31/00—CLIR Publishes Collections, Content, and the Web

1/3/00—Mellon Awards Funds to CLIR

1999

11/29/99—CLIR Publishes Building Preservation Knowledge in Brazil

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