The Center for Research Libraries and Saint Louis University Libraries are pleased to announce that SLU has joined CRL as its newest full-voting member.
“CRL is delighted to welcome Saint Louis University into the CRL community”, says CRL President Greg Eow. “CRL is in a moment of growth – in membership, collections, and services – and we are excited about the ways that CRL and Saint Louis University can partner to build strong, global collections to support the knowledge creation enterprise.”
Jennifer Nutefall, MLS, Dean of Libraries & Museums at SLU, views Saint Louis University Libraries’ membership in CRL as “a recognition of our rise to prominence. I am excited to join CRL and look forward to collaborating with our research library colleagues. CRL's unique and diverse set of resources will expand the ability of our scholars and researchers to meet our mission of research for the greater good.”
“The Vatican Film Library holds over 40,000 manuscripts from the 4th to the 17th centuries reproduced in microfilm and digital formats from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and other libraries. It offers rich collections for study in history, literature, religion, philosophy, Canon and civil law, classics, science, medicine and many other subjects. SLU's Rare Books collection has particular strengths in Jesuit and Catholic history, Arctic travel and exploration, and science and medicine. In addition to institutional history, the Archives collections include strengths in St. Louis city planning, zines, historic newspapers, and Catholic parish history,” adds Dean Nutefall, shedding light on Saint Louis University’s own distinct collections and how CRL’s collections expand research possibilities for SLU.
Saint Louis University, founded in 1818 in St. Louis, Missouri is one of the most prominent Catholic universities in the United States, which enjoys a global presence with a campus in Madrid.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL), based in Chicago, Illinois, and founded in 1949, is a member-governed, nonprofit international consortium of over 200 university, college, and independent research libraries collectively building, stewarding, and sharing a wealth of resource materials from all world regions to support inspired research and teaching. CRL’s deep and diverse collections are shaped by specialists at major U.S. and Canadian research universities, who work together to identify and preserve collections and content, to ensure its long-term integrity and accessibility to researchers worldwide.
