Libraries

The Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Initiatives focus on three objectives--optimizing student and faculty access to the combined resources of our libraries; maximizing cost, time, and space savings; and supporting a collaborative environment where library staff can work together to solve their mutual problems.

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BTAA Critical Pedagogy Symposium

The BTAA Critical Pedagogy Team will host a half-day online event to explore challenges and strategies for both integrating anti-racist practices into instructional settings and developing collective action around anti-racist instructional practices.

Big Ten Open Books

Big Ten Open Books connects readers everywhere to fully accessible, trusted books from leading university presses. Established as a new model for open-access publishing focused on equity and inclusion, we invite you to explore our Gender and Sexuality studies collection.

BIG Collection: Resource Access Policy Harmonization Report

The Resource Access Policy Harmonization pilot team is pleased to share their final report. Aspirational in nature, the report includes the new BTAA Resource Sharing Agreement plus Scanning Standards; reaffirms the Principles and Protocols for Sharing Special Collections within the Big Ten; and articulates important next steps for future pilot projects and working group investigations.

Library 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.

From groundbreaking research on traumatic brain injury to sharing best practices in supporting faculty development to expanding the scope of digital scholarship in all its dimensions, this was a banner year for the CIC.

CIC's latest Annual Report explores the impact of our joint efforts across the breadth of member universities and higher education. We invite you to share in our reflection of the accomplishments of the year, even as we look forward with great anticipation to the future and all that it holds.