About Our Collections
Over six million newspapers, journals, books, pamphlets, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other resources held by CRL support original research and teaching.
CRL holdings include materials from all world regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central, South and Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe.
While these shared collections are largely paper and microform, CRL provides online access to a continually expanding body of digital materials.
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Collections Team
Kevin Merriman | Director of Global Collections
Marie Waltz | Head of Access Initiatives and Collections Care
Marlies Bauhofer | Collections Services Librarian
Patrick Nowacki | Print Services Manager
Teeaye Nettles | ILL Services Manager
Rory Harkleroad | Access Initiatives Assistant
Collecting Areas
CRL collects and shares a diverse range of rare and unique materials with researchers.
Demand Purchase Program
To meet scholars’ individual research needs, CRL purchases Doctoral Dissertations, Newspapers, Archival material on request.
Shared Print
Shared print is a movement in which libraries work together on a coordinated, community-wide effort to preserve print collections through collective action.
TRAIL
TRAIL identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes, and provides free access to U.S. government technical reports, preserving valuable scientific and technological literature.