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Core Collections (The BCLA Core)

The BCLA has a core collection of more than 100,000 ebook titles, which could be estimated to be the equivalent of 120,000 volumes or more in print format.  In addition, the BCLA has purchased or subscribes to several additional collections. The collections listed below that are available to all member institutions.

• ABC-CLIO eBook Collection
• The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries 
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
• Early Encounters in North America
• Gale Virtual Reference Library 
• JSTOR Arts and Sciences I-VII
• NetLibrary Solinet Collections I-IX & Classic Literature Collection 
• North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
• Oxford Music Online
• Springer (ebooks)
• Wiley Interscience (ebooks)