The CERN Program Library (CERNLIB) is a collection of general purpose software libraries and program modules for scientific computing, developed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN.

[1] The application area of the library focuses on physics research, in particular high energy physics, involving general mathematics, data analysis, detectors simulation, data-handling, numerical analysis, and others, applicable to a wide range of scientific problems.

The major fields covered by the libraries contained therein were: Lower-level parts of the CERN Program Library were most prominently used by the data analysis software Physics Analysis Workstation (PAW) and the detector simulation framework GEANT, both of which are also part of the CERN Program Library.

Besides legacy software dependency, for newer applications written in C++, CERNLIB is superseded by ROOT.

[1] Libraries were still available "as is" "for ever" from the CERNLIB web site but with no new code, no user support and no port to IA-64.