The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Founded in 1949, CRL supports original research and inspired teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars a wealth of rare and uncommon primary source materials from all world regions.
CRL's deep and diverse collections are built by specialists and experts at the major U.S. and Canadian research universities, who work together to identify and preserve unique and uncommon documentation and evidence, and to ensure its long-term integrity and accessibility to researchers in the CRL community.
CRL is based in Chicago, Illinois, and is governed by a Board of Directors drawn from the library, research and higher education communities.
(Source: http://www.crl.edu/about)
CRL's COVID-19 response can be found here: https://www.crl.edu/crl-response-covid-19
A good place to start is the CRL Catalog. The catalog now includes all dissertations as well as most newspaper titles. Or browse the CRL topic guides to find out more about collections available to you. A growing potpourri consisting of digital collections, such as newspapers from Africa, Chinese Pamphlets: Political Communication & Mass Education, and government documents from Brazil, and others is also available.
Please note that in order to access these online collections from an off-campus location, one must authenticate using either the proxy or the VPN. More instructions on how to set up your computer to access these resources from an off-campus location see here.
Please note that not all CRL materials are listed in their online catalog. Our liaison librarians can help you identify CRL materials that might be useful in your research. Interlibrary Loan can also ask the CRL for materials not found in online catalogs.
As our librarians participate in different collaborative projects within the framework of the CRL, it is important to know more about them. Below is a list of these projects that has been culled from the website of the CRL.
Use the Inter-library Loan request form or use Melvyl to submit requests. Contact your Subject Librarian or the Inter-library Loan Department if you have questions about borrowing CRL materials.
Need help with research? Have a question about the collection or the UC Berkeley Library? Here are two ways to get in touch with me: