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CIC in the News: The NJ Star-Ledger on the Advantages of Membership
May 8, 2013, 13:49 PM
As outlined in a recent Star-Ledger article, Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff are poised to maximize their place as one of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's newest members.
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The Benefits of Membership: The Washington Post Focuses on University of Maryland's Entrance into the CIC
May 7, 2013, 12:31 PM
As outlined in The Washington Post, University of Maryland students, faculty, and staff are poised to reap the benefits of joining the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
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Research Matters: UMD Talk Show Focuses on the CIC
Apr 25, 2013, 11:49 AM
CIC Executive Director, Barbara McFadden Allen, joined UMD's Senior Vice President and Provost, Mary Ann Rankin, along with UMD Dean of Libraries, Patricia Steele, to talk about the many opportunities for collaboration between UMD and the member universities of the CIC.
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Out-of-Copyright but No Longer Out-of-SIght
Mar 28, 2013, 11:29 AM
OSU Libraries have begun sending their collection's out-of-print books to the Google Books Library Project for scanning.
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Collaboration Works: CIC Annual Report 2011-12 now available
Mar 12, 2013, 10:36 AM
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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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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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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