[Web4lib] Three Illinois Academic Library Consortia Merge

[Sloan, Bernie]

This spring the membership of the Illinois Cooperative Collection
Management Program (ICCMP), the Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL)
and the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO)
authorized the consolidation of these three groups into a new
consortium: the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in
Illinois (CARLI).

CARLI will begin operations on July 1, 2005, and will serve more than
150 academic and research libraries located throughout the state of
Illinois. For a list of CARLI member libraries, see:
http://www.carli.illinois.edu/members.html. 

CARLI was formed to improve the efficiency and cost effectiveness of
services, increase the effectiveness of consortial and member library
staff efforts, and create opportunities to pursue new programs and
services that the three constituent consortia would not have been able
to provide on their own. The University of Illinois serves as the fiscal
and contractual agent for the consortium under a memorandum of
agreement.

See the following press release for additional information:

http://office.ilcso.illinois.edu/Reports/prcom/050613externalpr.pdf  

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu