1. Cooperation in Constricting Times Models and Prospects The Center for Research Libraries …………………………… Global Resources Network

2. CRL Global Resources 251 academic and independent research libraries

3. CRL Global Resources 251 academic and independent research libraries A shared collection of 5 million books, journals, archives, documents, and newspapers

4. 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

5. Coordinated Collections …………………………… Cooperative Resource Development …………………………… Collaborative Programs

6. Coordinated Collections ……………………………

10. 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

12. Cooperative Collection Development LARRP Distributed Resources Program South Asia Cooperative Acquisition Program workshop –Korean Collections Consortium

13. Cooperative Acquisitions CRL Purchase Proposal Program Shared Purchase –NCC Multi-Volume Sets Project

14. 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

15. Shared Purchase Acquisitions China Inland Mission, Pts 1-2 British Intelligence on China in Tibet, 1900-1951

16. Cooperative Resource Development ……………………………

17. Cooperative Digitization World Newspaper Archive LLMC-Digital French / Cuban pamphlet projects –World Digital Library –Chinese Rare Books digitization

18. World Newspaper Archive

20. Interest in East Asian module(s)? –Community governed –Community-sourced content –Archiving provisions being put in place

21. English Language Newspapers Canton Register[1827-1843] Celestial Empire (Shanghai)[1874-1927] China Mail (Hong Kong)[1845-1968] China Press (Shanghai)[1914-1949] Hong Kong Daily Press [1864-1941] Hong Kong Telegraph [1881-1951] North-China Daily News [1855-1951] North-China Herald [1850-1941] South China Morning Post [1904-2009]

22. 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]

23. Law Library Microform Consortium

25. 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: 1.5m 2009

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

27. Collaborative Programs ……………………………

28. Area “Microform” Projects –Cooperative Africana Materials Project –LAMP –Middle East Microform Project –South Asia Microform Project –Southeast Asia Microform Project –Slavic & East European Microform Project CAMPMEMPLAMPSEAMSAMPSEEMP

29. 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)

31. 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

36. GRN Projects: GNARP Consortial purchase/subscription to German- language databases –World Biographical Information System (WBIS) –DigiZeitschriften (“German JSTOR”) –Brockhaus / Duden Encyclopaediae

37. Community ……………………………

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