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Article Name: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois Redirect from: CARLI

=About=

The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) provides library services and support to 151 Illinois public universities, community colleges, private colleges and universities, and special libraries including the Newberry Library, Illinois State Library, Illinois Math and Science Academy, Pritzker Military Library, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and the Field Museum of Natural History. Over 98% of all Illinois higher education students are enrolled at a CARLI member institution.

The Consortium leads Illinois academic libraries to create and sustain a rich, supportive, and diverse knowledge environment that furthers teaching, learning, and research through the sharing of collections, expertise and programs.

=Primary Services=

Resource-Sharing
Through I-Share, the integrated library system that now serves as the online catalog for 76 CARLI member libraries, participating member institutions have statewide access to a wealth of information services and resources, including an extensive public access catalog, interlibrary loan, and resource sharing services.

The I-Share database contains over nine million unique bibliographic records and more than 32 million item records. The combination of this enormous consortial collection with I-Share’s resource sharing services means that I-Share library patrons have ready access to a collection that is larger than most of the world’s greatest research libraries.

Delivery
The Illinois Library Delivery Service (ILDS) provides 24-hour point-to-point courier service between 143 locations throughout the state of Illinois. Funded by the Illinois State Library, ILDS transports library materials between participating Illinois academic and [research libraries], all Illinois regional library systems’ headquarters, and the [Chicago Public Library] to support interlibrary resource sharing in the state of Illinois.

E-Resources
CARLI contracts with commercial vendors to supply electronic resources to member institutions. CARLI subsidizes the cost of selected electronic resources for the benefit of all members at full and partial levels. CARLI also brokers a broad range of indexing, abstracting, and full text databases at discounted prices, negotiates and licenses, and provides centralized billing.

Digital Collections
CARLI Digital Collections serve as a repository of digital image, text, and audio collections from member institutions, with over 50,000 digital items. CARLI is also a member and host for Digital Illinois, a consortium of libraries in Illinois featuring collections from libraries, historical societies, museums, and other cultural institutions in Illinois.

Collections Management
Collections management services meet the diverse information needs of faculty, students, and other library users in Illinois by encouraging cooperative library activity in order to make the best use of its resources. Through the CARLI Book Digitization Initiative partnership with the [Open Content Alliance], libraries have an opportunity to have items from their collections digitized at no cost to them. CARLI members also may apply for monetary awards for collaborative collections development.

Continuing Education and New Initiatives
CARLI members also have opportunities to collaborate with other Illinois libraries through workshops and training sessions on a diverse range of topics.

New initiatives at CARLI include in-house development on the VuFind open source front end to the I-Share catalog; and participation in the University of Rochester’s Extensible Catalog project to design and develop a set of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their digital and physical collections to library users through content management systems and learning management systems and web search engines.

=History= CARLI was formed in 2005 by consolidating three existing Illinois academic library consortia 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 existing consortia could not provide on their own.

The library consortia were:
 * Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program (ICCMP), formed in 1986, provided statewide collection studies and grants.
 * Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL), formed in 1999 provided centralized electronic resource licensing.
 * Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO), formed in 1980, provided the shared integrated library system Illinet Online, now called I-Share.

The University of Illinois serves as CARLI’s fiscal and contractual agent under a Memorandum of Understanding between the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and CARLI. CARLI operates as a unit of the University Office for Planning and Administration.

CARLI is a participating consortia of the [International Coalition of Library Consortia] (ICOLC).

=External links=
 * CARLI Home Page
 * CARLI Member Libraries