Hope College joins the Center for Research Libraries

Hope College is now a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). This new membership is important because CRL’s collections are diverse and highly developed.

The Center for Research Libraries makes available more than four million publications, archives and collections to its member libraries to supplement their own humanities, social science and science holdings. Center materials can be obtained for extended loan periods and at no cost by users affiliated with member libraries. In fiscal year 2004, 92 percent of the Center’s interlibrary loan requests were sent by two-day express within one business day, and 90 percent of copies were delivered within one business day.

The Center’s resources include:


• 6,500 international newspapers, many dating to the 1700s--the largest collection of circulating newspapers in North America
• 4,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era, including 2,000 ethnic titles
• Foreign journals that are rarely held in U.S. libraries
• More than 800,000 foreign dissertations
• Area Studies - Major microform and paper collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia and more.