UVM Libraries

Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

The Center for Resesarch Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries with over "4.5 million rarely held books, journals, pamphlets, newspapers, and other primary source materials, and one million digital resources."

The CRL's collection includes:

• The largest circulating collection of international newspapers in North America, with current subscriptions to over 300 newspapers from 93 countires.
• U.S. Ethnic Newspaper Database that includes over 2,000 titles of newspapers published by various ethnic groups in the United States.
• International government publications from more than 100 countries.
• Over 800,000 foreign doctoral dissertations from institutions from outside of the United States and Canada.
• A scholarly journals program that includes journals rarely held by North American libraries, with an emphasis on Asian and Eastern European science and technology.
• An area studies collection that includes research materials from six regions of the world: Africa; Slavic and Eastern Europe; Latin America; the Middle East; South Asia; and Southeast Asia.

CRL publishes a quarterly newsletter, FOCUS, that highlights a collection of resources in a specific topic area.

CRL materials are available to current UVM users via an interlibrary loan request. Detailed information on interlibrary loan at Bailey/Howe Library can be found here.