Fact Sheet
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries was established in 1976 and consists of 28 university libraries plus the Library and Archives Canada, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), and the Library of Parliament. Membership is institutional, and is open primarily to libraries of Canadian universities which have doctoral graduates in both the arts and the sciences.
CARL has three basic goals:
- To provide organized leadership for the Canadian research library community in the development of policies and programmes which maintain and improve the cycle of scholarly communication;
- To work toward the realization of a national research library resource-sharing network in the areas of collection development, preservation and access; and
- To increase the capacity of individual member libraries to provide effective support and encouragement to postgraduate study and research at national, regional, and local levels.
Areas of interest to the Association include automation, collections inventory projects, copyright, joint purchasing consortia, preservation and resource sharing.
CARL/ABRC is an affiliate member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), and is incorporated as a non-profit organization under the Canada Corporations Act.
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University of Alberta
University of British Columbia
Brock University
University of Calgary
Carleton University
CISTI (Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information)
Concordia University
Dalhousie University
University of Guelph
Université Laval
University of Manitoba
Library and Archives Canada
Library of Parliament
McGill University
McMaster University
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Université de Montréal
University of New Brunswick
University of Ottawa
Université du Québec à Montréal
Queen's University
University of Regina
University of Saskatchewan
Université de Sherbrooke
Simon Fraser University
University of Toronto
University of Victoria
University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
University of Windsor
York University
Executive Director
Brent Roe
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Morisset Library, Room 239
University of Ottawa
65 University Street
Ottawa, Ontario KlN 9A5
TEL: (613) 562-5800 Ext.3652
FAX: (613) 562-5195
EMAIL: carl@uottawa.ca
