CCILA, when complete, will provide digital access (image and text) to all Latin American imprints to 1851. It is a large-scale cooperative effort, designed to involve every library in Europe, the Americas, or the Philippines possessing relevant materials. As a union catalog, CCILA will include records for all surviving letterpress material printed in Latin America and the Philippines. As a bibliography, it will also provide as complete a census of surviving copies as possible. CCILA will also list hard-copy and microform facsimiles. Public access to CCILA will be provided through the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN).