Local and national partnerships augment VCU Libraries' collection and expand the research universe for faculty and students. Consortia, common in the academic library world, provide access either to cost-effective cooperative purchases of licensed resources or to expedited resource-sharing.

• As a member of the Richmond Academic Library Consortium (RALC), VCU Libraries shares resources with other Central Virginia academic libraries through a borrowing pass service, materials loans and a shuttle service.
• The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) offers online resources in every field of learning and a Cooperative Borrowing Program.
• Through Interlibrary Loan and Item retrieval and delivery services, VCU Libraries secures materials from other institutions and delivers them digitally, by mail or for pickup.

Affiliations

• Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
• Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA)
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
• HathiTrust
• Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)
• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
• Scholarly Publishing and Aacdemic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
• ORCID
• CLOCKSS
• Virginia Libraries Association (VLA)
• Lyrasis
• Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors (AAHSL)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
• Library Publishing Coalition
• American Library Association (ALA)
• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
• VIVA - DataCite
• Richmond Academic Library Consortium (RALC)
• ASERL - Kudzu