These resources include:

• Libraries where you have borrowing privileges
• Other university libraries
• General collections
• Specialized collections
• Other universities
• Academic and policy Think Tanks

As a participant in the CIW program, you will have borrowing privileges at the Georgetown University library, the best university library in the region. The library is a short bus ride or a 30 minute walk from the Center.

In addition to Georgetown, you can also borrow books from the Cornell Libraries while in DC. The books usually arrive in less than a week. Instructions are posted in the computer lab.

Other university libraries

• American University library, which is a short bus ride, and has open stacks, although you will not have borrowing privileges there.
• George Washington University Library, which is a short walk, but requires you to donate $100 to become a Friend of the Library before you can use it. This is not recommended, given the range of free resources available to you.
• University of the District of Columbia Law Library, which is a quick Metro ride, is the most accessible of the university law libraries available to non-lawyers in the area, although you will not have borrowing privileges.
• Washington Research Libraries Consortium, consisting of a large number of the university libraries in the region, maintains a joint online catalog which you can access to see if a book is available at any of the area libraries.

• The Library of Congress, one of the world's greatest libraries, with substantial secondary and primary collections in almost every area of human knowledge and endeavor. Using the library requires patience -- it is closed stack so you have to wait for librarians to retrieve materials, and it usually seems that they only find about half of that which you request at any given time -- but it is, nonetheless, an awesome resource.
• The National Archives, with collections of original documents from America's history, including census records, Congressional Committee deliberations, and the papers of numerous prominent individuals and organizations from the American experience. While much of the material has been moved to the suburbs, it is still reachable by Metro.

• The Washingtoniana Collection, Martin Luther King, Jr., Public Library, is a wonderful collection of materials relating to and documenting the social, cultural, physical, economic, and political development of the nation's capital. It is easily reachable by Metro, or by a 30 minute walk.
• the Folger Shakespeare Library, the world's greatest collection of materials related to the work of the Bard of Avon outside the United Kingdom.
• The National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library, is run by the The National Institutes of Health, the leading sponsor of medical research in the country, and is an easy Metro ride from the Center.
• The National Agricultural Library, run by the Department of Agriculture, is one of the few libraries in the world which rivals Cornell's own Mann Library.
• The General Accounting Office researches and evaluates public policies for Congress.
• The Bureau of the Census collects survey and statistical data on the US population.
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology develops standards and measures for all kinds of basic and applied scientific research and development.
• the libraries of the various Cabinet Departments, including Education, Commerce, and Labor.

• American University, in upper Northwest, DC
• Catholic University, in Northeast, DC
• Howard University, above the Shaw neighborhood
• George Washington University, in Foggy Bottom
• Georgetown University, at the edge of Georgetown
• SAIS, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in Dupont Circle
• University of Maryland, in College Park, Maryland

• The American Enterprise Institute, conservative Republican establishment
• The Brookings Institution, moderate to liberal establishment
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• The Cato Institute, libertarian
• The Heritage Foundation, hard line conservative
• The Woodrow Wilson Center, nonpartisan international studies