Image: Dai Nihon kairiku dōchū ankenzu, by Matsukawa, Hanzan, 1818-1882. Japanese Historical Maps Collection, East Asian Library-UC Berkeley
The advancement of knowledge is not bound by national lines, nor are the challenges facing preservation and access. CLIR has been an international leader in cultural heritage and information resources for more than 60 years, furthering its mission through partnerships, publications, and funding opportunities, in service of the global public good. If you are interested in partnering with CLIR on its global initiatives or learning more about our international work, contact globalinitiatives@clir.org. CLIR invites institutions from around the world that share our values to become sponsors. Information on sponsorship is available here.
Map of featured CLIR initiatives and programs. Click on image below to go to interactive version.
Examples of CLIR’s recent international engagement and partnerships.
These two-year fellowships focused on data curation in Latin American and Caribbean Studies were offered as a specific track within CLIR’s broader postdoctoral fellowship program, which prepares new generations of librarians, curators, scholars, and researchers for work at the intersections of scholarship, teaching, and information in the emerging research environment.
In response to the tragic displacement of people, loss of life in conflict zones, and ongoing threats to the cultural heritage of the Middle East through destruction, looting, and illicit trafficking, the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) has begun to federate Middle Eastern collections from around the world, creating a publicly accessible, interoperable digital library of cultural material.
Image: Gold applique from the Achaemenid period, ca. 6th-4th century B.C., Gift of Khalil Rabenou, 1956. Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://bit.ly/2p9sVsb
Since 2002, CLIR has awarded more than 250 fellowships to scholars to support dissertation research in the humanities or related social sciences using original sources around the world.
In partnership with the Antiquities Coalition, CLIR will complete an emergency digitization and inventory project to safeguard the collection of the National Museum of Aden.
Image: A Griffon from the royal palace at shabwa, the capital city of the kingdom of en:Hadhramaut in Yemen. National Museum, Aden NAM 1218, about AD 250. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Griffon_hadhramaut.jpg
CLIR is spearheading the development of an advanced interoperable environment that preserves and makes accessible digitized cultural and scientific knowledge essential to addressing global challenges.
A new podcast from CLIR explores what it takes to keep our recorded memory alive for use by future generations. The series examines threats to our cultural record, and what is at stake if it’s lost.
Endangered Data Week is a collaborative effort coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, citizen science initiatives, and cultural heritage institutions to shed light on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost.
These awards encourage attendance at CLIR’s DLF Forum from members of the digital library community who are based in countries other than the United States.
CLIR’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program prepares recent PhDs for work at the intersections of scholarship, teaching, and information in the emerging global research environment.
CLIR was a sponsor of “Remembering You: A U Street Community Archiving Initiative.” CLIR supported a panel on grants and an oral history initiative to preserve the memories of this historically black Washington DC neighborhood, including immigrant communities from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Brazil, and China.
Image: “This Too Is Us” picture on the cover of the July 10, 1969 issue of the Capital Baptist. Courtesy of the MLK Public Library Washingtoniana Division. https://bit.ly/2q24kG6.
This endeavor engages Latin American and Caribbean stakeholders in developing recommendations for collaborative digital projects with U.S. institutions regarding open access, technological needs, and institutional sustainability. The symposium provides a forum for regional stakeholders to share strategies, identify common areas of need, and disseminate recommendations for collaborative partnerships.
This collaboration by the Digital Library of the Middle East and Kurdish Heritage Institute (KHI) in Sulaymaniyah is digitizing the KHI’s extensive collection of books, photos, audio, and video files documenting Kurdish heritage, with funding from the US Embassy in Baghdad.
Image: Structural views of buildings in Eastern Kurdistan, Kurdish Heritage Institute. https://www.khi.krd/en/content/structural-views-buildings-eastern-kurdistan.
IIIF is a growing community of the world’s leading libraries, archives, museums and other image repositories that have embarked on an effort to collaboratively produce an interoperable technology and community framework for image delivery.
Image: https://bit.ly/2KbVqws
The international Open Repositories Conference creates opportunities to explore the challenges faced by global academic library, research, preservation and access communities.
IIPC’s mission is to acquire, preserve, and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations.
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