Building on the established libraries and research collections of its nineteen
constituent centers, the Council
of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) in 1999 launched the American
Overseas Digital Library (AODL) as a cost-effective, efficient, centralized,
Internet-based mechanism for the standardization and electronic delivery of
important bibliographic and full-text primary and secondary source information
from all CAORC member centers, covering both print collections and research
collections in other media.