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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.



Library News
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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.
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CLI eNews Now Available
Mar 5, 2013, 09:57 AM
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Member Libraries:
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois
- Indiana University
- University of Iowa
- University of Maryland
- University of Michigan
- Michigan State University
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Northwestern University
- The Ohio State University
- The Pennsylvania State University
- Purdue University
- Rutgers University
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contacts:
Maurice York
Director
Library Initiatives
maurice.york@btaa.org
Robert Van Rennes
Associate Director
Library Initiatives
robert.vanrennes@btaa.org
Marian Leon
Assistant Director for the BIG Collection
Library Initiatives
marian.leon@btaa.org
Susanne Garrison
Community Coordinator
Library Initiatives
susanne.garrison@btaa.org