Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Morisset Hall Room 239, 65 University Street
Ottawa, ON K1N9A5
Phone: (613) 562-5385
Fax: (613) 562-5195
Web: http://www.carl-abrc.ca

Fact Sheet:

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries was established in 1976 and consists of 27 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:

1. 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;
2. To work toward the realization of a national research library resource-sharing network in the areas of collection development, preservation and access; and
3. 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.