CARL—the Canadian Association of Research Libraries—is
the leadership organization for the Canadian research library community.
The Association’s members are the 28 major academic research
libraries across Canada together with Library and Archives Canada,
the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)
and the Library of Parliament. CARL strives to enhance the capacity
of member libraries to partner in research and higher education, and
to seek effective and sustainable scholarly communication and public
policy encouraging of research and broad access to scholarly information.
