UPDATED CRL WEB PAGE AVAILABLE at HTTP://WWWCRL.UCHICAGO.EDU

        Current information about the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
  now is available on the World Wide Web at the Uniform Resource Locator
  (URL) http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu.  An updated web site was released today,
  with more documents, graphics, and links and an improved, enlivened design.

        A new feature of the expanded web site is that all of the area
  studies microform projects administered by CRL also have web pages, some
  of which are linked to ongoing work in preservation and access:  the
  Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP); the Latin American
  Microform Project (LAMP); the Middle East Microform Project (MEMP); the
  South Asia Microform Project (SAMP); the Southeast Asia Microform Project
  (SEAM); and the Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP).  The
  area studies project pages include descriptions of the purposes of the
  projects, bylaws, and meeting minutes.  The LAMP page links to the
  digitized images of Brazilian presidential reports from 1830-1889, a file
  of material indexed in the Subject guide to statistics in the presidential
  reports of the Brazilian provinces, 1830-1889, compiled by Ann Hartness.

        The web page includes CRL historical background, staff directory
  information, member lists, descriptions of collections and services, and
  bibliographies of CRL holdings.  The web page links to CRLCATALOG, the
  online public access catalog.  The lists of more than 5,800 foreign
  newspapers, accessible by geographic or title entry, are continually
  updated as CRL makes additions to this collection component.

        The What's New page will be updated weekly with news items about
  CRL events, membership meetings, and web site developments.

        The Center for Research Libraries, founded in 1949, is the United
  States' oldest cooperative, membership-based research library.  The
  Center's mission is to make rarely held research materials available to
  the scholarly community; it does this through (1) managing a collection of
  more than 5 million volumes that complement and supplement the collections
  of North American research libraries; (2) delivering materials to
  researchers worldwide through interlibrary loan and document delivery
  technology; and (3) operating programs in cooperative collection
  development and preservation that encourage collaboration among research
  libraries.  CRL serves thousands of researchers and scholars through its
  164 member institutions in North America and other institutions worldwide
  that participate in the six areas studies microfilm projects that CRL
  administers and other cooperative programs.
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  Release date:  February 3, 1997
  For more information, contact:

 Linda Naru
 Director of Member Services
 The Center for Research Libraries
 6050 South Kenwood Avenue
 Chicago, Illinois 60637-2804
 Voice: 773-955-4545 x318
 Fax: 773-955-4339
 **new area code effective 10/12/96**
 Internet: naru@crlmail.uchicago.edu

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Mary Wilke
Head of Acquisitions
Center for Research Libraries
6050 S. Kenwood Ave
Chicago, IL 60637-2804
Tel: (773) 955-4545 ext. 351
Fax: (773) 955-4339