News & Updates

The Center for Research Libraries: Enriching Research, Expanding Possibilities

By Kristin Strohmeyer

September 15, 2015

Beth Bohstedt (LITS), Celeste Day-Moore (History) and Reynaldo Ortiz (Africana Studies) gave a lunch presentation on Hamilton College and the Center for Research Libraries.  Day-Moore and Ortiz discussed their own use of CRL resources and how they may be used in teaching, and Bohstedt covered how we actually access the materials, whether via interlibrary loan or online.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a cooperative collection of esoteric research materials not widely held in U.S. Libraries.  CRL collections include:
• foreign and U.S. newspapers
• foreign government documents
• foreign theses
• large microfilm sets of manuscript collections
• extensive holdings in area studies: Latin America, Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia

As reported in the June 2015 newsletter, Hamilton College recently became members of the Center for Research Libraries. Our membership in CRL allows you to borrow items from their collections for long-term use or access materials that have been digitized online.  Please consider CRL holdings as an extension of the Hamilton College library. You may request CRL materials though Interlibrary Loan.