RCL Career Resources: Overview
RCL: Career Resources (CR) is the essential list of core resources for vocation, technical, and career education programs at two and four-year undergraduate institutions. It includes over 4,500 titles in 56 subject areas. The successor to Vocational and Technical Resources for Community College Libraries, CR contains a list of print and electronic resources essential for supporting programs in ten major career-oriented subject areas:

• Allied Health
• Building and Construction Trades
• Business
• Communication
• Criminal Justice and Law
• Education
• Engineering and Technology
• Graphic and Apparel Arts
• Human Services
• Sciences

Both professional researchers and beginning students will benefit from CR’s easy-to-use interface and discovery features. The CR content is maintained and continuously updated by a team of knowledgeable subject specialists ensuring that it is not only reliable but current. CR has a variety of uses: it is consulted by faculty adapting to new curricula, by student researchers, by librarians for collection development purposes, and by colleges and accrediting agencies. Refine and build your library collection using the CR with Bowker Book Analysis System™, a powerful collection-analysis tool that allows you to compare the CR’s title list with your library's collection in any or all of the subject areas covered by CR.