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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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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...
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Indiana Librarian, Longtime CIC Leader, Receives Major Award
Apr 21, 2011, 16:44 PM
A longtime leader in the CIC's efforts to keep government documents in the hands of the public has received a major honor for her work. Lou Malcomb, head of the Government Information and Kent Cooper Services Department in IU's Herman...
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CLI Conference Will Focus on Print Storage Strategies
Apr 13, 2011, 11:46 AM
The challenge of stewarding legacy print collections in the digitization era will be the center of discussion at the upcoming CIC Center for Library Initiatives Conference "What's In Store? Collaborative Strategies for Managing CIC Print Collections." The conference will take...
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Six CIC Libraries To Begin Pilot Program with Corsotial Borrowing Software Relais D2D
Mar 31, 2011, 22:01 PM
Six CIC libraries have agreed to proceed with a pilot of Relais D2D, a next-generation software platform for consortial borrowing. The University of Chicago; University of Iowa; University of Michigan; Michigan State University; Northwestern University; and Pennsylvania State University will implement Relais...
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CIC-Google Scanning Continues After Google Lawsuit Settlement Rejected
Mar 22, 2011, 22:43 PM
Judge Denny Chin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a long-awaited ruling Tuesday afternoon, rejecting a proposed settlement between Google and the plaintiffs (publishers and authors) in the Google Books lawsuit. It is the...
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Center for Library Initiatives February eNews Now Available
Feb 14, 2011, 14:52 PM
The latest edition of the bi-annual Center for Library Initiatives eNewsletter is now available online. This issue features articles on CLI director Mark Sandler's reflections on shared storage; a photo gallery from the CLI's reception at the ALA conference in Washington,...
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CIC/Google Celebrate Major Milestone: A Million Digitized Volumes
Feb 4, 2011, 12:07 PM
The CIC is proud to announce an important milestone: Google has digitized and returned a million volumes from CIC member libraries. The milestone was noted with a Feb. 4 article posted on the "Inside Google Books" blog, authored by Kim...
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CIC's Armstrong to Speak at Wiley-Blackwell Executive Seminar
Dec 9, 2010, 07:00 AM
Kim Armstrong, deputy director of the CIC Center for Library Initiatives, will be a featured speaker at the Wiley-Blackwell Executive Seminar: New Business Models and Opportunities in Scholarly Publishing on Friday, Dec. 10, at the National Press Club in Washington....
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Northwestern Student Newspaper Highlights Digitization at NU
Nov 3, 2010, 15:59 PM
Northwestern University's student newspaper featured the University Library's participation in the Google digitization project in its article "Library books to go digital" published Nov. 1. The Daily Northwestern story mentions the CIC's partnership with Google and what it means for...
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Vision Continues to Gain Momentum as HathiTrust Grows
Oct 26, 2010, 08:00 AM
Another university has joined forces with HathiTrust, and the shared digital repository that was co-founded by the CIC continues to gain momentum. The Utah Statesman, the student newspaper of Utah State University, reported in its Friday, Oct. 21 editions that...
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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