Friends of the Chicago Public Library

Established in 1873, the Chicago Public Library operates a network of more than 70 branch libraries throughout the city. Its central library is at the Harold Washington Library Center. The library offers a wide range of books, periodicals, newspapers, documents, videos and educational databases. It offers various services to its members, including Internet access, the use of computers, summer reading programs for children, homework help centers and book workshops. The special collections and preservation division of the Chicago Public Library maintains an archive of posters, book arts, documentary films, photographs and historical artifacts. The library has an online catalog of its materials.

Center for Research Libraries is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries. The group acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. The center provides these resources to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. It supports research and teaching in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The center s collection includes doctoral dissertations, African-American newspapers and the 100,000-plus-page archive of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge security force. It has newspapers of various categories, such as domestic, foreign and newspapers on demand. The center offers a collection of over 330,000 monographs in several areas, including the history of science, medicine and technology. Center for Research Libraries is located in Chicago.