Collections

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:

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.)

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.