CARLI and EBSCO hosted an Open Athens kickoff webinar on January 29, 2020. A recording of the webinar, the Open Athens implementation surveys, and the reference materials mentioned during that webinar are linked from this page.
CARLI News
January 31, 2020
CARLI 40th Anniversary Celebration
In 2020, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois will celebrate 40 years of resource sharing through CARLI and its predecessor organizations. To commemorate and celebrate this important anniversary we are planning a reception during the ALA Annual Conference at the Art Institute of Chicago, in the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room on Sunday, June 28 from 4-6 p.m.
January 29, 2020
In Alma, the Automated Fulfillment Network (AFN) functionality is the analog to Voyager's Universal Borrowing (UB) functionality. Ex Libris staff have finished the initial setup of the AFN for all 91 I-Share libraries, and as discussed during the 1/23 Office Hours, it's time for all I-Share libraries to test both the network setup, and their library's own settings.
January 24, 2020
We are pleased to announce that CARLI and EBSCO have scheduled a kickoff webinar about Open Athens, for Wednesday, January 29, 2020, from 9:30am-11am CST. No registration is required. Connectivity information for the webinar can be found below and on the CARLI website calendar. This session will be presented by our EBSCO Open Athens project team and will be recorded. Please feel free to invite staff from your IT department to join the webinar, if you like.
January 21, 2020
On behalf of the CARLI Board of Directors and CARLI Staff, we are proud to announce we are now accepting applications for the CARLI Scholarship!
January 10, 2020
The election and appointment process for new members of the CARLI Board of Directors has been completed.
Directors elected to 3-year terms are: Spencer Brayton (Waubonsee Community College), Karen Janke (Erikson Institute), and Pattie Piotrowski (University of Illinois Springfield).
The director elected to the 1-year term is Taran Ley (Southern Illinois University School of Medicine).
Directors appointed to one-year terms are: Fred Barnhart (Northern Illinois University), John Small (North Central College), and Jacob Jeremiah (Oakton Community College).
May 14, 2019
Voting is now open for seats on the CARLI Board of Directors. Each of the CARLI constituencies—Community Colleges; Private Colleges and Universities; and Public Universities—will elect one new Board member for a three-year term (July 1, 2019–June 30, 2022).
April 15, 2019
CARLI is seeking nominations for candidates to fill seats on the CARLI Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is the governing authority of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois.
March 18, 2019
Thank you to all of the staff at our member libraries who were able to travel to Champaign for the CARLI Annual Meeting on Friday, November 2.
The presentations and pdf files from the meeting, including the CARLI Annual Report, CARLI Counts information and application as well as the I-Share Next Update, and Committee Projects and Task Force Reports, are now linked from the agenda.
November 6, 2018
Please plan to join us on Friday, November 2, 10:00-3:00 pm, at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign for the 2018 CARLI Annual Meeting. The morning meeting will also feature a report from CARLI Senior Director Anne Craig, a presentation from Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe about CARLI Counts, and an I-Share Next Update. In the afternoon CARLI Committees/Task Forces will present their annual projects from FY 2018 with an open discussion of the projects to wrap up our day.
October 23, 2018