Yale University is a founding member of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), organized in 1974 to meet the needs of major research libraries through interinstitutional cooperation.   Because of Yale's membership, Yale researchers are generally entitled to special access privileges at other RLG libraries; specific details can be obtained from Yale reference librarians.  RLG libraries also offer each other expedited, free interlibrary loan service.
The Research Libraries Group maintains the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) database, a file of more than 30,000,000 records of books, journals, archival materials, and non-print materials located at other RLG institutions or at the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, the U.S. Government Printing Office, the National Library of Canada, and the British Library.  To verify citations or locate needed titles, Yale researchers are encouraged to use Eureka, RLG's easy-to-use search interface, for its bibliographic database.

Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

CRL database is the online catalog of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago.  Its primary purpose is to collect those research materials not targeted by the North American research institutions.  The Center collects heavily in the follow materials: archival materials, newspapers and periodicals (foreign & domestic, specialized), foreign doctoral dissertations, U.S. state documents, USSR Academic publications.  The Center collects broadly in the following geographic regions: Africa, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.  In addition, the Center collects any category of material, from any geographic locale, which is deemed important to scholarly research, but has not been acquired by other institutions.  The Center's resources are available to Yale University faculty, staff, and students through the Interlibrary Loan Office (Sterling Library).  To search CRL's catalog via the Internet, you must have a telnet client configured as part of your browser.  The URL is telnet://crlcatalog.uchicago.edu.  The telnet address is crlcatalog.uchicago.edu.

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