Mailing List CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org Message #114879
From: Cliff Lynch cliff@cni.org <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
Sender: <cgplmgr@cni.org>
Subject: Big 10 Academic Alliance Libraries To Collectively Manage A Single Common Collection
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:53:00 -0500
To: <CNI-ANNOUNCE>
There was an important announcement from the Big Ten Academic Alliance, basically (as I read it) committing the member libraries to move towards managing the collections of the members as a single giant common collection. This is an incredibly complex undertaking (as is well documented in the announcement) but promises huge benefits to the participants and their user communities. See

https://www.btaa.org/library/big-collection/the-big-collection-introduction

This follows on a whole series of key strategic collaboration agreements from the Big Ten group, notably their work over the past couple of years on Special Collection interlibrary loan policy.

I hope that we will be able to explore these developments in more detail as part of an upcoming CNI meeting.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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