Center for Research Libraries

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) makes available more than four million publications, archives and collections to its member libraries to supplement their own humanities, social science and science holdings. Center materials can be obtained for extended loan periods and at no cost by users affiliated with member libraries such as Valparaiso University. In fiscal year 2004, 92 percent of the Center’s interlibrary loan requests were sent by two-day express within one business day, and 90 percent of copies were delivered within one business day.

For more information on CRL, go to http://www.crl.edu/ .

To search the CRL catalog, go to http://www.crl.edu/catalog/index.htm . Note that not all CRL materials are cataloged. To browse their collections by subject, including uncataloged material, go to the CRL Topic Guide page.

The Center’s resources include:

• 6,500 international newspapers, many dating to the 1700s--the largest collection of circulating newspapers in North America
• 4,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era, including 2,000 ethnic titles
• Foreign journals that are rarely held in U.S. libraries
• More than 800,000 foreign dissertations
• Area Studies - Major microform and paper collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia and more.

If you want to request materials from CRL, please use ILLiad, our online interlibrary loan request system. Contact the Interlibrary Loan Department at ill@valpo.edu if you have questions about borrowing CRL materials. If you would like to see CRL's lending policies, they are available online.