CDL-CRL LAUNCHES DSAL WEBSITE

From: Susan Rabe <rabe_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 7, 2000
CONTACT:
Communications Department
sago_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu

CRL Officially Launches DSAL Website This Month

(Chicago, IL) - This month CRL officially launched one of its major digital 
initiatives - the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL). The Digital South Asia 
Library is a global collaborative effort to make important and rare 
resources available to the international community. Scholars, public policy 
officials, business leaders, and others can now access information through 
the project's permanent website at http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dsal


This ongoing project will allow users to benefit from an improved 
electronic information infrastructure and expeditious delivery of digital 
research materials directly to them from the South Asian subcontinent and 
England. DSAL has acquired permission to digitize and scan an array of 
important resources from a variety of institutions, thereby making access 
to rare materials a reality for scholars worldwide.


The Digital South Asia Library includes resources from many disciplines as 
well as a variety of data types. The component parts of the project include 
maps, statistics, bibliographies, union lists, indexes, photographs, books 
and journals, as well as a wonderful reference collection that is strong in 
pedagogical tools for South Asian language learning.

Participants in DSAL include CRL, the South Asia Microform Project, the 
Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for 
Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British 
Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in 
India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya 
in Nepal, other institutions in South Asia, and leading universities in the 
U.S.

Resources are continuously being developed and added to the website. If you 
have questions or comments about DSAL, please email its Project Manager 
Rebecca Moore at moore_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu.



The Center for Research Libraries is an international not-for-profit 
consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available 
scholarly research resources to users everywhere. Its mission is to 
stimulate and enhance scholarship as an extension of local resources by 
providing members with access to its collection of unique and rarely held 
research materials. For more information about CRL, visit the website at 
http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu or call (800) 621-6044.

  Susan M. Rabe
Program Officer for Repository Collections
Center for Research Libraries
6050 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637-2804
Tel: 773-955-4545 x323
Fax: 773-955-4339
Email: rabe_at_crlmail.uchicago.edu

Lynn Sipe                                       lsipe_at_usc.edu
Director, Collection Resources &                        213/740-2929
Director, Information Delivery Organization & Retrieval 213/821-1617 (fax)
University Libraries
Information Services Division
c/o IDOR, UVI-A
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182