The WRLC community encompasses over 110,000 students, 9,000 faculty, and more than 600 library staff.

Creating Synergies for Success

The Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) was established as a non-profit corporation in 1987 to support and enhance the library and information services of universities in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Currently, our partner universities are: 

• American University
• The Catholic University of America
• Gallaudet University
• George Mason University
• The George Washington University
• Georgetown University
• Howard University 
• Marymount University
• The University of the District of Columbia

The WRLC enables the success of learning and scholarship by creating coordinated collections, creating a robust infrastructure for discovery and access, ensuring the long-term preservation of physical and digital information resources and sharing expertise.