The Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) was established in 1987 by some of the major universities in the Washington D.C. area to share library collections and information technology in order to enhance the resources available to their students and faculty.

WRLC provides mission-critical services to its member universities:

• information technology supporting library operations and resource-sharing
• access to online resources
• technologies to support digital collections and share campus scholarship, and
• offsite storage to free valuable space in campus libraries.

photo of Catholic University Library by Shanyun Zhang