The Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, Inc. (Chicago, USA) is a not-for-profit organization supported by donations from the public and grants from the Lithuanian Foundation. The Center, founded in 1981, is the largest Lithuanian scholarly organization outside of Lithuania. Its founding purpose was to unify various cultural, education, and scholarly organizations.
The goals and objectives of the Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, Inc. (LRSC) are: to promote, organize and sponsor research; collect, assemble, archive, exhibit, publish and distribute materials, books, maps, recordings, etc. pertaining to Lithuania and its people; its language, history, geography; its culture, art, music, folklore, folk-art and all other matters of a related nature; to sponsor and conduct instruction dealing with any of the above-mentioned areas; to organize exhibits, thereby familiarizing the public with the holdings of the LRSC.
