About the Center for Research Libraries

Grinnell College is a member of the Center for Research Libraries, a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions for extended loan periods through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. The Center responds quickly to interlibrary loan requests with most requests arriving within a week.

 

Search the CRL Catalog:

http://www.crl.edu/catalog/index.htm
(Not everything in the CRL collection is cataloged. If you don't see what you are looking for, contact a librarian at query@grinnell.edu, and we'll find out for you.

 

Request materials from CRL:

Place your request using Grinnell College Libraries' interlibrary loan forms:

 

Topic Guides:

To find out about CRL's rich resources in a wide range of subject areas, browse their Topic Guides.

http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39

 

The Center's resources include:

• 6,500 international newspapers, many dating to the 1700s--the largest collection of circulating newspapers in North America.
  Search for foreign newspapers:
  http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23&l3=44&l4=27
  
• 4,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era, including 2,000 ethnic titles.
  Search for U.S. ethnic newspapers: http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23&l3=44&l4=26
  
• Foreign journals that are rarely held in U.S. libraries
  
• More than 800,000 foreign dissertations.
  Search for foreign doctoral dissertations: http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23&l3=44&l4=25
  
• Area Studies: Major digital, microform and paper collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia and other world regions. See Collection Highlights and Topic Guides for more detail.

Consultation:

CRL staff will work with individual faculty and students to identify CRL resources for seminars and research projects. Contact a Grinnell College librarian at query@grinnell.edu for more information.

Site visits:

Students, faculty, and other researchers may visit CRL's Reading Room in Chicago to use Center materials. Arrangements must be made with CRL's Access Services Department in advance of the patron's visit to insure that needed materials are available.

See Reading Room Access for more information. http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=1&l2=10&l3=14&l4=6