Established | 1976 |
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President | Martha Whitehead, Queen's University |
Address | 309 Cooper Street, Suite 203, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
Website | www.carl-abrc.ca/ |
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) was established in 1976 and brings together thirty-one research libraries. Twenty-nine members are university libraries, plus Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI).
The organization's mission is to "enhance the capacity of Canada’s research libraries to partner in research and higher education, seeking effective and sustainable scholarly communication and public policy encouraging of research and broad access to scholarly information."
CARL established three priorities:
CARL members include 29 university libraries and 2 federal libraries.
Participating university libraries:
Federal libraries:
CARL works with a number of other organizations, including: