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CRL’s collection of African-related resources contains a wide variety of newspapers, monographs, archival collections, serials, government publications, and dissertations, spanning four centuries and covering virtually every country in Africa. Significant country strengths include South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, materials related to Africa are collected from sources in the U.S., England (particularly from the British Library and National Archives), France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, and others. The major institutional focus for the collection of Africana at CRL has been provided by the Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP). CAMP acquires major microfilm sets and conducts original microfilming and digitization of resources for preservation and wider accessibility. These collections provide a depth of content that augment CRL’s scholarly resources.

CRL’s agriculture collection has grown through deposit of the membership, specific projects, and direct acquisition. The collection has strengths in plant and animal culture as well as statistical information in Area Studies and government documents holdings. More than 120 countries are represented in the collection; about half of the resources come from the U.S., West Germany, Russia, India, Sweden, and Japan. CRL's extensive dissertation collection contains a representative sample of content related to agriculture from European institution. CRL continues to add digital resources to its collection through Project Ceres (in partnership with the United States Agriculture Information Network (USAIN) and the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC).