CARLI News

The Internet Archive now has over 3.5 million books online including over 6,700 items digitized for the Archive through the CARLI Book Digitization Initiative. More than 40 CARLI member institutions have contributed historical out-of-copyright works, government documents, materials in which their institutions own the copyright, or have partnered with local organizations to digitize materials. All texts are available for free to anyone with an Internet connection.

September 14, 2012
By: Margaret Chambers

CARLI recently introduced access to public domain, electronic full-text materials in the HathiTrust collection via the I-Share union catalog. Member libraries are now considering whether to incorporate the same HathiTrust records into default searches of their local catalogs as well.  So the question is: to Hathi or not to Hathi?

August 28, 2012
By: Margaret Chambers

Service has been restored for the toll-free CARLI Support telephone number. If you have any additional problems or concerns, please email the CARLI Office at support@carli.illinois.edu.

We appreciate your patience during this recent outage.

August 28, 2012
By: Margaret Chambers

Twice-Born Hymns by J. Irving Erickson
Twice-Born Hymns
From North Park University's “Frisk Digital Collection of Covenant Literature” in CARLI Digital Collections.

April 18, 2012
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The election and appointment process for new members of the CARLI Board of Directors has been completed. New Board members elected to 3-year terms beginning July 1, 2012 are Cindy Fuller  (Millikin University), Dennis Krieb (Lewis and Clark Community College), and Jane Treadwell (University of Illinois at Springfield). Phyllis Self (Western Illinois University) has been elected to serve the remaining year of the elected term of departing Board member David Carlson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale.)

April 12, 2012
By: Ed Schell

Please join us on Thursday, July 12, 2012 at Joliet Junior College. The keynote “Liaison and Outreach Trends and Possible Enhanced Actions” will be given by David Stern, Associate Dean for Public Services at Illinois State University. Breakout sessions include:

April 12, 2012
By: Ed Schell

On August 4, 2010, CARLI implemented changes to standardize the policies that apply to I-Share Universal Borrowing (UB) activity. “Universal Borrowing” is the Voyager module that supports interlibrary resource sharing among the 76 I-Share libraries. Any time an I-Share library patron requests or borrows an item from an I-Share library other than their “home” library, Universal Borrowing policies are invoked.

April 12, 2012
By: Ed Schell

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