CARL supports regional and national initiatives relevant to its mission, and works in collaboration or formal partnership with relevant organizations in Canada and internationally.
Currently, CARL is represented at the following external organizations/initiatives:
- Association of Research Libraries – Advocacy and Public Policy Committee – Susan Haigh (CARL)
- Canadian Committee on Cataloguing – Susan Andrews (UBC)
- Canadian Consortium for Research – Susan Haigh (CARL) and Katherine McColgan (CARL)
- Canadian Persistent Identifiers Advisory Committee (CPIDAC) – Susan Haigh (CARL)
- Canadian Science Publishing – Susan Haigh (CARL)
- CFLA Copyright Committee – Mark Swartz (Queen’s) and Susan Haigh (CARL)
- CFLA Indigenous Matters Committee – Jenna Walsh (Simon Fraser)
- Depository Services Program Library Advisory Committee – Carla Graebner (Simon Fraser) and Susan Paterson (UBC)
- Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) Advisory Committee – Susan Haigh (CARL)
- Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) – Board – Susan Haigh (CARL); Advisory Committee – Lise Brin (CARL)
- IFLA Management of Library Associations Standing Committee – Susan Haigh (CARL)
- International Alliance of Research Library Associations – Jonathan Bengtson (Victoria), Vivian Lewis (McMaster), and Susan Haigh (CARL)
- National Shared Print Network Steering Committee – Gwen Bird (Simon Fraser)
- National Heritage Digitization Strategy Steering Committee – Jonathan Bengtson (Victoria)
- Research Data Canada Steering Committee – Jeffrey Moon (CARL, CARL Portage) and Donna Bourne-Tyson (Dalhousie)
- SPARC Steering Committee – Talia Chung (Ottawa)
- SPARC Open Access Week Advisory Group – Lise Brin (CARL)
CARL also maintains relationships through agreements, membership or informal means with the following groups:
| Canadian regional and national university library consortia | |
| BCI | Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire |
| CAUL | Council of Atlantic University Libraries |
| COPPUL | Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries |
| OCUL | Ontario Council of University Libraries |
| CRKN | Canadian Research Knowledge Network |
| Canadian national library organizations | |
| APLIC | Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada |
| FMD | Fédération des milieux documentaires |
| CFLA | Canadian Federation of Library Associations |
| CULC | Canadian Urban Libraries Council |
| Canadian national research and higher education organizations | |
| ACA | Association of Canadian Archivists |
| ACUP | Association of Canadian University Presses |
| CAGS | Canadian Association of Graduate Studies |
| CALJ | Canadian Association of Learned Journals |
| CASA | Canadian Alliance of Student Associations |
| CANARIE | Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network |
| CAUT | Canadian Association of University Teachers |
| CCA | Canadian Council of Archives |
| CCA | Council of Canadian Academies |
| CCR | Canadian Consortium for Research |
| CFHSS | Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Compute Canada | Canada’s National High Performance Computing (HPC) Platform |
| CICan | Colleges and Institutes Canada |
| CSAE | Canadian Society of Association Executives |
| PKP | Public Knowledge Project |
| UC | Universities Canada |
| Canadian government-related organizations and services | |
| CFI | Canada Foundation for Innovation |
| CIHR | Canadian Institutes of Health Research |
| Copyright Board | Copyright Board of Canada |
| DSP | Depository Services Program (under Government of Canada Publications) |
| NDRIO | New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization |
| NSERC | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
| Open Government | Open Government |
| SSHRC | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| National Libraries | |
| BAC-LAC | Library and Archives Canada |
| BAnQ | Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec |
| BL | British Library |
| BNF | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| LoC | Library of Congress (US) |
| Non-Canadian and international organizations | |
| ACRL | Association of College and Research Libraries |
| ADBU | Association des directeurs et des personnels de direction des bibliothèques universitaires et des services documentaires de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (FR) |
| ALA | American Library Association |
| ARL | Association of Research Libraries |
| CAUL | Council of Australian University Librarians |
| CNI | Coalition for Networked Information |
| CRL | Center for Research Libraries |
| IARLA | International Alliance of Research Library Associations |
| IFLA | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |
| Internet Archive | Internet Archive |
| LIBER | Association of European Research Libraries |
| OCLC | Online Computer Library Center |
| RLUK | Research Libraries UK |
| SCONUL | Society of College, National and University Libraries (UK) |
| SPARC | Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition |
