Center for Research Libraries

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a United States-based nonprofit consortium of academic and independent research libraries that preserves and promotes access to primary documentation and evidence for research. With this award, CRL is supporting three Mexican universities to create the Repository for Documentation on Disappearances in Mexico. The Repository will hold information gathered by a range of actors, including victims and their families, human rights lawyers and activists, and journalists, and will include formal and informal print, visual, audio, and digital evidence that can be used to facilitate access to truth and justice. The repository aims to provide Mexico with tools for preserving this documentation for future use.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a U.S.-based nonprofit consortium of academic and independent research libraries that preserves and promotes access to primary documentation and evidence for research. With this planning award, CRL is working with Mexican partners to design a strategy for preserving documentation about human rights violations perpetrated since the 2006 war on drugs in Mexico that has resulted in 40,000 disappearances. Family members of the victims, human rights lawyers and activists, journalists, and others have gathered formal and informal print, visual, audio, and digital evidence that can be used to facilitate access to truth and administer justice. The resulting project aims to provide Mexico with tools for preserving this documentation for future use.

To study the use of technology by human rights organizations to document human rights abuses (over two years).

To support a survey of the availabilty of publications of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in U.S. research libraries.