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The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) began operating on July 1, 2005. CARLI was formed through the consolidation of existing consortia: Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program (ICCMP), Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL), and Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO).
An early form of “shared print,” now a widespread consortial activity, began in 1949 when the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) was founded as a consortium of ten major research libraries “to conduct and maintain a place or places for the deposit, storage, care, delivery and exchange of books ... and other articles containing written ...
SWAN (System Wide Automated Network) is a multi-type library consortium that serves Illinois libraries. It was established in 1974. [ 1 ] It has a membership of 97 libraries in the Chicago area , and provides service to 1 million registered library users.
Libraries often band together in consortia for cooperative resource purchasing and sharing. The International Coalition of Library Consortia , or ICOLC , is an informal group of about 150 such consortia from around the world.
Library associations connect libraries and library workers at the local, national, and international level. Library associations often provide resources to their individual and institutional members that enable cooperation, exchange of information, education, research, and development.
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A library consortium is any local, regional, or national cooperative association of libraries that provides for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of academic, public, school and special libraries and information centers, and for improving services to the clientele of those libraries. [1]
In the United States of America, state library agencies established in each state have long been a catalyst for a great deal of the motivation for public library cooperation. This has been since the founding of the movement, starting in 1890 when Massachusetts created a state Board of Library Commissioners charged to help communities establish ...