Collections

Yearbook Digitization Project - Completed

In 2013, the CARLI Board of Directors approved funding for the digitization of the student yearbooks OR the student newspaper for all CARLI Governing members. The following information is for those institutions that have chosen to have yearbooks digitized. Institutions may choose to digitize yearbooks OR newspapers, but not both. The newspaper portion of the project is on hold pending the FY16 budget.

CARLI Research Subsidy Program: 2015-2016 Funded Projects

Title: Assessment of International Students: Their University and Library Experiences

Primary Researcher: Melissa Burel and Sarah Park

CARLI Member: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Yearbook Digitization Project

In 2013, the CARLI Board of Directors approved funding for the digitization of the student yearbooks OR the student newspaper for all CARLI Governing members. The following information is for those institutions that have chosen to have yearbooks digitized. Institutions may choose to digitize yearbooks OR newspapers, but not both. The newspaper portion of the project is on hold pending the FY16 budget.

Number of Copies Recommendation for I-Share

At its March 2011 meeting, the CARLI Board of Directors asked the Collections Working Group to study the current distribution of monographic titles in the I-Share database, and to determine whether an optimal number of monograph copies available for Universal Borrowing in I-Share can be reasonably established. The Collections Working Group reported its findings to the Board at the June 2011 meeting.  

Patron Driven Acquisitions Project: Print Materials

The Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) project provides timely access to needed materials in the humanities and social sciences that have not been purchased by any I-Share library. Launched in February 2012, this project builds on a successful pilot project with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010.  

CARLI worked with YBP to identify print titles that were not currently owned by I-Share libraries. In order to be included, materials had to meet the following selection criteria:

Center for Research Libraries Membership Subsidy

In September 2008, the CARLI Board of Directors approved a partial subsidy for CARLI libraries interested in becoming members of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). The subsidy covered 50% of the annual membership fee up to a maximum of $2,000/year for 2 years (through 2010.)

Five College Library Depository

All CARLI member libraries were affiliate members of the Five College Library Depository through an agreement completed in May 2011. Managed by the Five College consortium of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Five College Library Depository provided member libraries who subscribed to the digitized collections, access to the physical volumes of the journals the of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, the American Psychological Association, and the Institute of Physics, as well as those journals included in JSTOR and Project Muse.