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BTAA Joins Open Library of Humanities
Jul 19, 2021, 11:18 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) have signed a three-year collective agreement that provides multi-year support for OLH from all of the BTAA’s fifteen member libraries. This move was made possible thanks to the OLH Open Consortial Offer, an initiative that offers consortia, societies, networks and scholarly projects the opportunity to join the Open Library of Humanities Library Partnership Subsidy system as a bloc, enabling each institution to benefit from a discount.
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Maurice York Appointed Director of Library Initiatives
May 5, 2020, 11:00 AM
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Big Ten Academic Alliance and ASERL partner to form Library Accessibility Alliance
Jan 7, 2020, 11:44 AM
The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and the Big Ten Academic Alliance have created a new name for their recent partnership to advance accessibility for library electronic resources. Now called the “Library Accessibility Alliance” (LAA), the program seeks to ensure all library users have equitable access to information.
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BTAA and ASERL Announce Library Accessibility Partnership
Aug 1, 2019, 09:34 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) have entered into a two-year partnership to advance accessibility for library electronic resources, with the goal of providing equal access to information for all library users. Since 2016, the BTAA has been conducting third-party evaluations of electronic resource platforms and collections, publicly posting the evaluations for review by vendors and libraries.
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Sustaining Values and Scholarship: A Statement by the Provosts of the Big Ten Academic Alliance
Jun 10, 2019, 09:49 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance continues its advocacy for a sustainable and open ecosystem of publication. Collectively, our institutions’ more than 50,000 faculty are supported by over $10 billion (2017) in research funding, and our institutions have similarly invested significantly in our capacity to further our missions to advance knowledge. Together, we produce roughly 15% of the research publications in the United States.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance Cooperative Cataloging Partnership receives ALCTS Collaboration Award
Feb 27, 2018, 10:43 AM
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has selected the Big Ten Academic Alliance Cooperative Cataloging Partnership (BTAA CCP) as the recipient of the ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2018.
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Strength in Numbers: Building a Consortial Cooperative Cataloging Partnership
Oct 23, 2017, 11:13 AM
Librarians across the Big Ten Academic Alliance are collaborating to provide greater access to cross-institutional collections through a strategic effort to supplement cataloging capacity.
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Mark Sandler wins 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
Feb 2, 2017, 12:01 PM
Mark Sandler, former Big Ten Academic Alliance Director of Library Initiatives, has been awarded the 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award.
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CIC's Rebecca Crist on Collaborative Stewardship of Shared Collections
May 4, 2016, 10:04 AM
A new monograph explores how libraries and the organizations that provide services to them are devoting more attention to system-wide organization of collections—whether the "system" is a consortium, a region or a country.
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Robert Van Rennes Named New Assistant Director of CIC's Center for Library Initiatives
Apr 20, 2016, 08:39 AM
The CIC is delighted to announce that Robert Van Rennes has been appointed as Assistant Director, Center for Library Initiatives at the CIC, effective July 1, 2016.
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The Power of the Collective: CIC Annual Report Now Available
Mar 10, 2016, 11:42 AM
The newly released CIC Annual Report details the collective power and progress of this enterprise, highlighting the Health Equities initiative between the state Departments of Health and the member schools; faculty collaborations in theater, music education, and business; and data on the economic impact of the scientific workforce and funded research being done across the campuses.
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CIC Leadership Opportunity: Director – Center for Library Initiatives
Sep 1, 2015, 10:53 AM
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) seeks a senior leader with energy, drive, tact, and tenacity to serve as Director of the Center for Library Initiatives (CLI).
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CIC CLI Director Mark Sandler to Retire
Jun 12, 2015, 09:40 AM
Mark Sandler, Director of the CIC Center for Library Initiatives, has announce his retirement effective February 29, 2016. Now entering his tenth year of service to the CIC and its 15 member universities, Dr. Sandler also served for 20 years on the staff of the University of Michigan Library.
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Center for Library Initiative’s Shared Print Repository Holds Three Miles of Journals (So You Don’t Have To)
Aug 13, 2014, 10:05 AM
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University of Maryland Embraces Opportunities Offered by CIC Membership
Apr 10, 2014, 11:17 AM
University of Maryland has maximized its first year in the CIC.
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The CIC Welcomes Monsters University to Membership
Apr 1, 2014, 00:00 AM
Monsters University has become a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, effective April 1, 2014. Founded in 1313, MU is a private, pan-educational university with over 12,000 undergraduates, located two hours from downtown Monstropolis.
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"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.
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Center for Library Initiatives eNewsletter now available
Jul 15, 2013, 13:08 PM
The CLI July 2013 eNews includes Mark Sandler's musings, an update on the Shared Print Repository, background on the HathiTrust amicus filing, and scenes from the 2013 CLI Conference and ALA Member Reception.
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CIC eNewsletter Now Available
Jul 1, 2013, 14:07 PM
The July 2013 of the CIC eNews is now online.
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University of Maryland and Rutgers University Officially Become Members of the CIC
Jul 1, 2013, 00:01 AM
The University of Maryland and Rutgers University have become members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, effective July 1, 2013.
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