News
News
-
"Together We Work. Together It Works." CIC Annual Report 2012-2013 Now Available Online
Feb 10, 2014, 14:02 PM
CIC's latest Annual Report explores the impact of our joint efforts across the breadth of member universities and higher education.
Full Story -
Center for Library Initiatives eNewsletter now available
Jul 15, 2013, 13:08 PM
The CLI July 2013 eNews includes Mark Sandler's musings, an update on the Shared Print Repository, background on the HathiTrust amicus filing, and scenes from the 2013 CLI Conference and ALA Member Reception.
Full Story -
CIC eNewsletter Now Available
Jul 1, 2013, 14:07 PM
The July 2013 of the CIC eNews is now online.
Full Story -
University of Maryland and Rutgers University Officially Become Members of the CIC
Jul 1, 2013, 00:01 AM
The University of Maryland and Rutgers University have become members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, effective July 1, 2013.
Full Story -
CIC in the News: The NJ Star-Ledger on the Advantages of Membership
May 8, 2013, 13:49 PM
As outlined in a recent Star-Ledger article, Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff are poised to maximize their place as one of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's newest members.
Full Story -
The Benefits of Membership: The Washington Post Focuses on University of Maryland's Entrance into the CIC
May 7, 2013, 12:31 PM
As outlined in The Washington Post, University of Maryland students, faculty, and staff are poised to reap the benefits of joining the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
Full Story -
Research Matters: UMD Talk Show Focuses on the CIC
Apr 25, 2013, 11:49 AM
CIC Executive Director, Barbara McFadden Allen, joined UMD's Senior Vice President and Provost, Mary Ann Rankin, along with UMD Dean of Libraries, Patricia Steele, to talk about the many opportunities for collaboration between UMD and the member universities of the CIC.
Full Story -
Out-of-Copyright but No Longer Out-of-SIght
Mar 28, 2013, 11:29 AM
OSU Libraries have begun sending their collection's out-of-print books to the Google Books Library Project for scanning.
Full Story -
Collaboration Works: CIC Annual Report 2011-12 now available
Mar 12, 2013, 10:36 AM
CIC's latest Annual Report explores the impact of our joint efforts across the breadth of member universities and higher education.
Full Story -
CIC's CLI Teams Up With Springer to Bring Publishers and Early-Career Librarians Together
Mar 7, 2013, 09:17 AM
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation and Springer Science+Business Media held their first-ever publishing symposium at University of Chicago's Gleacher Center March 7, 2013.
Full Story -
CLI eNews Now Available
Mar 5, 2013, 09:57 AM
Full Story -
CIC's UBorrow Program in the News
Feb 18, 2013, 11:19 AM
Library Journal's InfoDocket picked up a University of Chicago article on the efficiency and popularity of the CIC's UBorrow program.
Full Story -
CIC Job Posting: Visiting Project Manager at CIC's Center for Library Initiatives
Nov 7, 2012, 13:35 PM
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is seeking a Visiting Project Manager for the Center for Library Initiatives (CLI). This full-time academic professional will provide ongoing management, assessment, and communication for two major CIC initiatives: mass digitization of U.S. federal...
Full Story -
Favorable Ruling in HathiTrust Fair-Use Case a Big Win for CIC Universities
Oct 11, 2012, 11:37 AM
As a founding member of HathiTrust, a digital repository that provides secure access to an online library containing digitized versions of legacy print collections, the CIC welcomes the recent ruling in the fair-use suit as good news for libraries, scholars...
Full Story -
Access to Book Citation Index Expands in CIC Libraries
Sep 20, 2012, 14:10 PM
Researchers and scholars at CIC universities have a powerful new tool to analyze the citation network between books and the wider world of scholarly research through the Book Citation Index in the Web of Science. Made available through the CIC,...
Full Story -
CIC's UBorrow wins The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative's 2012 Innovation Award
Jun 20, 2012, 13:08 PM
CIC partners develop innovative technical solution to improve consortial borrowing for users The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative has announced that the winner of the Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS) 2012 Innovation Award is UBorrow, a project of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation....
Full Story -
CIC's Center for Library Initiatives January 2012 Newsletter Available
Jan 12, 2012, 11:15 AM
There is a lot happening around the CLI on key issues such as scholarly communication, shared storage, and digital humanities. For more on these topics and an update on this spring's CIC Library Conference, plus Mark Sandler's take on how...
Full Story -
CIC Supports Association of Research Libraries' Statement on Future of Depository Program
Oct 25, 2011, 12:40 PM
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and its members have a long-standing participation in and support for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), a partnership between the US Government and libraries throughout the United States that ensures the public has...
Full Story -
The Robot will get that for you . . . the University of Chicago's High-Tech Library
Jul 28, 2011, 12:36 PM
The Chronicle of Higher Education explores the University of Chicago's incredible underground stacks where books are shelved and retrieved by a complex robotic system. ". . . David N. Borycz, project manager at the library, demonstrates what happens when a...
Full Story -
Committee on Institutional Cooperation Initiates a Shared Print Repository
Jun 22, 2011, 10:12 AM
Collectively, the thirteen member libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) hold some 85 million print volumes, the overwhelming majority being held multiple times across our campuses. To better steward library resources, the CIC Library Directors have made a...
Full Story
- 1
- 2
- 3 (current)
- 4
- 5
- Academic Collaboration (74)
- Faculty (56)
- General (84)
- International (47)
- Library Initiatives (116)
- Love Data Week (1)
- Media (91)
- Professional Development (17)
- Student Opportunities (51)
- Technology Collaboration (88)
Big Ten Academic Alliance Impact Report (PDF)
Big Ten Academic Alliance University Data At-A-Glance
The Big Ten Academic Alliance compiles data from its member institutions including demographics, expenditures, faculty information, and rankings.