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CLIR Awards $552,905 for Recordings at Risk
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced the award of nearly $553,000 to fund 17 Recordings at Risk projects. This eighth cohort
April 30, 2021
(Re)Collections
Out of the Ashes
An abridged conversation with Sharon Burney, program officer for CLIR’s grant programs and host of the forthcoming season of the Material Memory podcast, focused on
April 20, 2021
(Re)Collections
Support and Space: CLIR’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Responds to the Pandemic
A conversation with Dr. Jodi Reeves Eyre, CLIR program officer, reflecting back on one year ago, when COVID-19 established itself as a global pandemic. Nicole
April 12, 2021
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CLIR Announces 2020 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards
Washington, DC, March 31, 2021—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced the award of $4.02 million to fund 16 digitization projects through
March 31, 2021
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HBCU Library Alliance and CLIR Announce Appointment of Project Researchers
Researchers will develop a report on needs, capacity, and technical planning for the HBCU Library Alliance community The HBCU Library Alliance and the Council
March 11, 2021
(Re)Collections
DLF Working Groups Respond to COVID-19: Three Questions with Gayle Schechter
Gayle Schechter is program associate for CLIR’s Digital Library Federation (DLF) Before we get into the subject of DLF’s working groups during COVID-19, can you
March 10, 2021
(Re)Collections
Intergenerational Leadership During Unprecedented Times
By Francesca Saldan, M.A., museum curator For the first time, there are five generations in the workplace. Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers, Millennials, and Gen-Zers can
March 2, 2021
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CLIR Invites Applications for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices. The competition, funded
March 1, 2021
(Re)Collections
Cutting Cost by Cutting Collections in COVID-19
Lindsay Cronk is head of collection strategies and scholarly communication at the University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries. I’m Lindsay Cronk, a collection
February 23, 2021
(Re)Collections
Share Your Reflections: One Year with COVID-19
In March 2020 CLIR started the COVID (Re)Collections blog series to help people in the information field process COVID-19 and share their responses as
February 3, 2021
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CLIR Receives $2.01 Million Mellon Foundation Grant to Extend Data Curation Fellowships in African American and African Studies
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded CLIR $2.01 million to extend Data Curation Fellowships in African American and African Studies. This funding will support
January 15, 2021
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HBCU Library Alliance and CLIR Receive Grant to Study Feasibility for Large-Scale Survey of HBCU Archives
Study will inform plans to make HBCU special collections and archival materials discoverable and accessible The HBCU Library Alliance and the Council on Library
November 20, 2020
