Canadian Association of Research Libraries
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| Canadian Association of Research Libraries | |
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| Established | 1976 |
| President | Thomas Hickerson, University of Calgary |
| Location |  Toronto, Canada |
| Affiliations | 27 university libraries, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), Library and Archives Canada, Library of Parliament. |
| Website | www.carl-abrc.ca/ |
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is an organization of research libraries in Canada.
It was established in 1976 and consists of 27 university libraries plus Library and Archives Canada (LAC), Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), and the Library of Parliament.[1]
CARL's mission: "CARL strives 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. top of page." [2]
CARL states its 3 main goals as[3]:
- 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.
The current President of CARL (2011–2013) is Thomas Hickerson, University of Calgary.[4]
[edit] Partnership and Collaboration
Member include:
- University of Alberta Libraries Rutherford Library
- Concordia University Libraries
- McGill University Library
- University of British Columbia Library
- York University Libraries
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