Center for Research Libraries Email Format
Higher EducationIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a higher education organization based in Chicago, Illinois, focused on preserving and sharing knowledge by collecting and stewarding the corpus of human expression in collaboration with its member libraries. It seeks to enable an equitable, accessible, and sustainable scholarly record through coordinated action within the research library community and its network. Its primary customers are member libraries and partner institutions that rely on CRL to preserve materials and enable broad access. A notable recent development is the 2025 launch of the Print Archives Preservation Registry on the TIND ILS platform, expanding CRL's preservation infrastructure. The organization operates with a small to mid-sized staff in Chicago.