Borrowing from CRL
Scholars and researchers from CRL member institutions have free and unlimited use of the CRL collections through interlibrary loan.
Unsuccessful Search?
If you are affiliated with one of our member institutions CRL may be able to acquire the material you are looking for through the Demand Purchase Program.
Research Help
A Reference Consultation can help you identify material in our collection that is relevant to your research topic. You can get help from Mary Wilke, CRL's Member Liaison & Outreach Services Director.
Search
Search Tips
- Adjacency
- Multiple words are searched together as one phrase.
Example: world health organization - Wildcards
- Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk. '*' for 1-5 characters, '**' for open-ended truncation, '?' to replace a single character anywhere within a word.
Examples: environment* polic*, comput**, wom?n - Boolean Operators
- Use "and" or "or" to specify multiple words in any field, any order. Use "and not" to exclude words.
Example: stocks and bonds
Example: (alaska or canada) and (adventure and not vacation) - Proximity Operators
- Use "near" to specify words close to each other, in any order.
Example: california near university - Field limits
- A field limit causes the system to search only the specified field for the specified word(s).
- Grouping
- Keyword search results are usually grouped by relevance to bring the most likely titles to the top of the list. Each group represents a similar level of relevance and results are sorted within the group by date or title. To get an ungrouped result set, use boolean operators to form a complex query.
FOCUS, CRL's periodic publication, examines the challenges of preservation and access for primary source materials in various fields.
The annual spring issue of FOCUS is dedicated to announcing the projects cited in CRL's Primary Source Awards.
Recent Issues
Digital Collections
In addition to finding e-resource materials via the Digital tab in a catalog search, you can browse selected CRL digital collections.
topic guides
CRL's Topic Guides are a valuable starting point for your research. They contain:
- Bibliographic citations for selected resources
- Sample subject searches
- Links to related resources, such as CRL collections webinars
- Introductory comments on trends in collecting in various subject areas