Center for Research Libraries
A library consortia providing millions of resources available to support academic research.
What is it?
The Center for Research Libraries is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars critical primary source material.
This library partnership collects unique and uncommonly held resources and makes them available to all partner institutions, of which University of Calgary Library is a member.
Collection examples include:
How do I access?
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Center for Research Libraries (U.S.) - Online catalogSearch the collection catalogue.
- Access digitized content directly through CRL online catalog; request other material through UofC Interlibrary Loans
Membership in CRL provides access to primary and secondary source materials for international research, CRL Global Resources. Many of these collection materials are unique; most are unavailable from other sources. The Center's online catalogue includes more than 1.1 million titles and online finding aids. CRL Global Resources, currently provides over 1 million pages of digital content, and will grow substantially through digital conversion of the existing CRL paper and microfilm corpus and related historical and cultural materials. The collections include more than 5 million volumes of published monographs and serials, including over 800,000 non-North American dissertations.
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Access Digital CollectionsIncluding newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and more.
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Browse the Topic GuidesTopic Guides list materials based on many available topics.
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Interlibrary LoanUse Interlibrary Loan to request physical resources.
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Contact your Subject LibrarianFor assistance navigating and accessing the CRL collections
LLMC Digital
LLMC Digital is the on-line product of a cooperative of law libraries preserving legal titles and government documents. The Law Library Microform Consortium began partnering with CRL in May 2010.
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LLMC digitalFull text, image-based searchable database of primary and secondary legal publications. Collections include: U.S. federal, state, and territories government documents; case reporters, legal periodicals and treatises; foreign government, multi-jurisdictional, and international law documents; canon law, Native American law, and legal philosophy.
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