What are the benefits of a CRL membership?

Benefits for Voting and Global memberships are summarized below.

Voting member benefits include the following:
  • Unlimited access to CRL materials, which are delivered to member institutions at no additional cost.
  • A 90-day loan period, with 90-day renewals as needed.
  • Participation in the Purchase Proposal Program—an annual, ballot-based, cooperative acquisition program.
  • Participation in the Shared Purchase Program—a cooperative acquisition program based on CRL-organized buyer groups.
  • Participation in the Demand Purchase Program, in which patrons (i.e., individual faculty, grad students, etc.) at member institutions can request purchases up to $2,000 annually in three areas: foreign dissertations, newspapers, and archival material.
  • Electronic delivery of materials, when possible
  • Eligible to load CRL catalog records or subsets at no charge (includes periodic updates)
  • Program and service orientations available for member staff.
  • Individualized resource searches available through CRL’s User Services.
  • Participation in planned scanning projects through User Services.
  • Web consultations to optimize user access to the CRL catalog.
  • Free subscription to The Charleston Advisor.
  • Cost avoidance - Many members take advantage of CRL’s large legacy newspaper collections on microfilm—and third-day delivery—to discontinue costly subscriptions, thus saving or redirecting funds to other purposes
  • Eligible to participate in JSTOR, ICON, Print Archiving, and other CRL activities and partnerships.
Global member benefits include the following:
  • Unlimited access to the majority of CRL materials. Paper-based and other hard-copy materials are not available for interlibrary loan. Global members pay all shipping costs.
  • A 90-day loan period, with 90-day renewals as needed.
  • Participation in the Shared Purchase Program—a cooperative acquisition program based on CRL-organized buyer groups.
  • Participation in the Demand Purchase Program, in which patrons (i.e., individual faculty, grad students, etc.) at member institutions can request purchases up to $2,000 annually in three areas: foreign dissertations, newspapers, and archival material.
  • Electronic delivery of materials, when possible
  • Eligible to load CRL catalog records or subsets at no charge (includes periodic updates)
  • Program and service orientations available for member staff.
  • Individualized resource searches available through CRL’s User Services.
  • Participation in planned scanning projects through User Services.
  • Web consultations to optimize user access to the CRL catalog.
  • Free subscription to The Charleston Advisor
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