News & Updates
Hamilton College Becoming a Member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
By Beth Bohstedt
June 19, 2015
Beginning July 1, 2015, Hamilton College will be a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), a partnership of more than 200 university, college, and independent research libraries. CRL acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, government documents, archives, and other primary source materials from a global network of sources, making them available to researchers at member institutions through interlibrary loan and digital delivery.
CRL’s deep and diverse holdings support research in the history of science, economics, law and government, immigration and population studies, international diplomacy, and cultural studies.
- Largest collection of circulating newspapers in North America (more than 16,000 titles with strengths in various global areas and historical U.S. ethnic titles)
- Primary legal and government resources, including foreign and U.S. state documents
- More than 800,00 foreign dissertations (mostly from European institutions) dating back to the nineteenth century
- Area studies materials—major microform and paper collections from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia
CRL functions as a branch library of extraordinary resources with user-focused services.
- Rapid turnaround of loan requests and project-length loan privileges
- Digitized collections offering over 50 million pages scanned by request and in collaborative partnerships
- Extended interlibrary loan of materials from CRL’s over five million items, and document delivery of articles from the outstanding journal collections of the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology
- Purchase by request of new materials in three areas of collection strength: foreign dissertations, newspapers, and microform archives.
For more information on CRL collections, check out CRL’s online catalog. Stay tuned for more information on the collections and how to access them.
