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The Illinois Library Delivery Service (ILDS) provides 24-hour point-to-point courier service between 143 locations throughout the state of Illinois Mondays through Fridays. Funded by the Illinois State Library and with services provided by Lanter Delivery Systems, Inc. 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.
All CARLI Governing and Associate members that confirmed their participation and delivery information by October 5, 2007, are direct ILDS service locations.
I-Share is a computer-based library system that provides statewide access to a wealth of information services and resources, including an extensive public access catalog, interlibrary loan, and resource sharing services to the CARLI I-Share libraries. While each I-Share library has its own local catalogs that are individually named, the I-Share catalog, as a union list, provides interlibrary services to the entire Illinois library community.
 CARLI contracts with commercial database providers to supply electronic resources to members. CARLI subsidizes the cost of selected electronic resources for the benefit of all members. Subsidized resources comprise both content to which CARLI has perpetual rights and databases licensed as annual subscriptions. CARLI also brokers a broad range of indexing, abstracting, and full text databases at discounted prices from which members may select those that support their individual curricular and research needs. Member libraries pay the cost of resources brokered through CARLI, but the consortium assumes the cost negotiating and managing licenses, coordinating selections and centralized billing. Content provided through the E- Resources program is hosted on vendor maintained platforms, with the exception of digital images hosted on CARLI’s CONTENTdm server. E-Resource content obtained through CARLI makes use of all other member products (CONTENTdm, I-Share, SFX, and WebFeat) to effectively serve the information needs of students, faculty and staff at member libraries.
CONTENTdm is a software package that is used by individual libraries and library consortia such as CARLI to store and provide access to digital versions of primary source materials. CONTENTdm provides a means of making a wide variety of media types including images, journals, books, audio and video files, maps, and newspapers accessible for search and display on a typical personal computer with an Internet connection and a web browser.
The consortium works to 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.
SFX is a link resolver, from the company Ex Libris. A link resolver is a product that, figuratively speaking, sits between a "source," where a user begins the search process, and a "target," where the user goes next. Often the "source" is something like an abstracting and indexing database, while the "target" is a provider of electronic full text. When the user clicks the SFX button in the source system's interface, the source builds an OpenURL containing metadata about the "object" the user was viewing, and sends that OpenURL to SFX. In response, SFX builds a clickable menu of targets that are relevant to the metadata in the OpenURL.
WebFeat is a federated search engine that can search any or all of a library's databases simultaneously with a single interface. WebFeat can search any database, including licensed databases, free databases, catalogs, Z39.50, Telnet, or proprietary databases.
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