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The Libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance are aligned in the vision of uniting our separate collections into one collection, shared and fully networked: the BIG Collection. By this phrase we mean a holistic and comprehensive understanding of what a library "collection" is: not simply the things we hold, but our services; our people; our expertise; our technology; and our infrastructure.
In advancing this future of interdependence and excellence, we are guided by our North Star in everything that we do:
In order to advance a just, trustworthy, scalable & sustainable open knowledge ecosystem, make open, more equitable scholarship our lead purpose.
On these pages, you'll find more about the services, programs, and community that are advancing this vision in a principles-centered, mission-driven, values-aligned way.
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Library News
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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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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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