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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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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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Chronicle Blog Post Hails HathiTrust for Research, Mentions CIC
Oct 15, 2010, 15:52 PM
A recent blog post (10/12) on the Chronicle of Higher Education website details one faculty researcher's experience using the HathiTrust, the shared digital repository co-founded by the CIC members, as well as the University of Michigan's Mirlyn library catalog. Blogger...
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UNL's Digital Humanities Content Awaits Entry into HathiTrust
Sep 30, 2010, 08:00 AM
An in-depth archive of documents related to poet Walt Whitman are among the treasures owned and housed in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, but it could soon have a wider audience of students and...
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Center for Library Initiatives A Partner on Cross-Consortial Grant Award
Sep 10, 2010, 16:34 PM
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation is one of four partners on a National Leadership Collaborative Planning Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services that will fund the beginning of a national conversation that may lead to the development...
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Daily Illini Examines the CIC's Role in Digitization at the University of Illinois
Jul 20, 2010, 11:07 AM
The Daily Illini, the student newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on July 15 published an in-depth article spotlighting digitization efforts at the University of Illinois library and the CIC's role in those efforts. The University of Illinois...
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