The University of Washington Libraries participates in a wide variety of organizations, consortia, and alliances. Through these myriad groups, the Libraries leverages its resources, expands access to the world's information, and creates extra benefit for its community of users. Following is a selected list of memberships and partnerships.
ALA (American Library Association) http://www.ala.org/
ARL (Association of Research Libraries) http://www.arl.org/
CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) http://www.clir.org/
CNI (Coalition of Networked Information) http://www.cni.org/
CRL (Center for Research Libraries) http://www.crl.edu
DLF (Digital Library Federation) http://www.diglib.org
GWLA (Greater Western Library Alliance) http://www.gwla.org/
MLA (Medical Library Association) http://www.mlanet.org/index.html
NNLM (National Network of Libraries of Medicine) http://nnlm.gov/
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) http://www.oclc.org/
Orbis Cascade Alliance http://libweb.uoregon.edu/orbis/index.html
Program for Cooperative Cataloging http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/
PRDLA (Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance) http://www.prdla.org/
SLA (Special Libraries Association) http://www.sla.org/
SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) http://www.arl.org/sparc/
WLA (Washington Libraries Association) http://www.wla.org/liblinks.html
