INTRODUCTION
CATALOG
AREA STUDIES MICROFORM PROJECTS
OTHER COLLECTIONS
Introduction
A major source of microfilmed primary sources, the Center
for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international not-for-profit consortium
of colleges, universities and libraries that purchases scholarly research
materials for use by its member institutions. Its mission is to stimulate and
enhance scholarship as an extension the resources of an individual library. The
Center provides access to its over five million-item collection of unique and
rarely held research materials. The University of Florida Libraries, as a member
of CRL, can borrow these microfilmed research materials on indefinite loan for
use by its faculty and students.
Catalog
CRL’s electronic catalog
of over 470,000 records is available through WebLUIS. These records
represent monographs, retrospective newspaper files, serials, archival materials
in microform, and major microform sets (with individual title listings).
However, not all of its holdings are listed in the catalog; excluded materials
include foreign dissertations, college catalogs, U. S. state documents, and many
of its archival holdings of national governments, such as those from the U. S.
National Archives. Also, records for some South and Southeast Asian monographs
in non-roman languages have not yet been converted to machine-readable format.
The CRL catalog can be searched by author, title, series title, title or series keyword, OCLC bibliographic record number, ISSN or ISBN, and some subjects. A search can be further limited by language, reproduction type, keyword (author, title, or subject), publisher, place and date. Once a search is made of the Catalog to verify holdings, UF faculty, staff, and students can borrow materials through the Interlibrary Loan Office (see Online Service Requests ILL forms). The ILL office can also provide assistance in determining CRL ownership of works not represented by the catalog.
Area Studies
Faculty and graduate students benefit enormously from the UF
Library's membership in the Center for Research Libraries. Many of the
Center’s collecting interests mirror some of the University’s major academic
programs. In particular, CRL administers, coordinates and promotes
interdisciplinary Area Studies microform projects for:
Africa
Latin America
Middle East
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Slavic and East Europe
Other Collections
Other notable CRL
collections include:
Civilian Conservation
Corps Camp Papers
Ethnic Press (over
2,000 periodicals and newspapers published by various ethnic groups in
North America)
Foreign Bank Reports
Soviet Serials in Translation
Foreign Newspaper
Titles (over 6,200)
Brazilian Presidential
Documents (1821 through 1993)
More information on the Center for Research Libraries can be found at its website:
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