International Coalition of Library Consortia

Bibliographical Center for Research

BCR
Website: http://www.bcr.org

Brief description

The Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) is a nonprofit, multistate library cooperative that has served the library community since its founding in
1935, providing cost-effective library and information services. Today BCR serves 1,065 voting-member libraries in 39 states and Canada. Agreements with the state library agencies in Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming allow any library located in those states to use BCR services as a member institution.

BCR is governed by a Board of Trustees representing all member states and various types of libraries:  academic, school, public, research and special
libraries. BCR serves member libraries by:  

* Helping them share information resources.
* Providing libraries with access to information services.
* Developing and promoting new technologies for information organization.
* Delivering and carrying out training and technical assistance in the use of information services.

Legal structure

Primary functions

• Cataloging services
• Collections sharing 
• Electronic content licensing 
• Electronic content loading/presentation 
• Training 
  

Number and type of member libraries

Academic, Public, School, Special