The approximately five 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.
CRL Collecting Areas
CRL acquires and makes available to researchers a wide range of uncommon materials. Acquisitions focus on news; law and government; finance, the history of science, technology and engineering; and the history and economics of agriculture.
Cooperative Collection Building
Longstanding cooperative programs strategically build deep and diverse shared collections of source materials, available to researchers at CRL libraries, while minimizing local acquisition, processing and storage costs.
Tools and Resources for Informed Collection Development
CRL supports informed investment in collections by libraries in its community, through a variety of information resources, analyses, activities, and forums.
Past Events
CRL Annual Council of Voting Members (Virtual)
21 Apr 2022 - 12:00pm
21 Apr 2022 - 12:00pm
2021 CRL Annual Council of Voting Members Meeting
22 Apr 2021 - 12:00pm
22 Apr 2021 - 12:00pm
Webinar: Making the Most of CRL Membership
11 Dec 2020 - 2:00pm
11 Dec 2020 - 2:00pm
Strategies for Strengthening Collective Dealings: an eDesiderata Forum
30 Oct 2019 - 12:00pm
30 Oct 2019 - 12:00pm
Webinar: CRL Updates / September
25 Sep 2019 - 2:00pm
25 Sep 2019 - 2:00pm
The Impact of CRL
Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.
Vietnamese Newspapers Essential for Berkeley Dissertation
UC Berkeley graduate student uses CRL’s extensive collection of South Vietnamese newspapers for his dissertation on the social history of the interregnum period, 1963-1967..
Helping Libraries Deal with ‘Big’ Data
At CRL’s 2018 Global Collections Forum, Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Head of Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections at Stanford University Libraries, discussed how satellite imagery and large geospatial datasets are being used as source materials for scholars in a variety of disciplines, and the new types of library support they require.