From: Bernie Reilly <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:33:28 +0000 I am happy to report that the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and the North East Research Libraries Consortium (NERL), a nonprofit program operating under the auspices of Yale University, have come to an agreement to relocate NERL operations to CRL. Under this new arrangement NERL, which licenses major on-line products on behalf of 28 core member academic research libraries and approximately 80 affiliates, will be managed as a cooperative program under the CRL organizational umbrella. Founded in 1949, CRL is a consortium of over 260 academic and independent research libraries in the U.S., Canada and Hong Kong. CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars the primary source materials critical to those disciplines. In the past three years CRL has strengthened its own capacity to support licensing and procurement of electronic resources in areas of traditional CRL collecting strength: news, historical archives, government records and publications, and statistical information. We believe that this new working relationship will enable CRL and NERL to better represent the needs and interests of the major research libraries in securing electronic access to source materials for scholars. In mapping out our licensing activities, we at CRL have benefited from the good advice and counsel of Ann Okerson, founder of NERL and LIBLICENSE, and Joseph Esposito, an habitué of this listserv. Bernie. Reilly President The Center for Research Libraries