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ACADEMIC LIBRARIES OF INDIANA
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Overview &Introduction
Inspired by the potential enhancements to scholarship, teaching, research,
preservation, access, academic achievement, and as well as operational and economic
efficiency, six planning task forces representing diverse academic settings convened to
analyze academic needs, review trends and formulate potential solutions.
Licensing
Resource Sharing
Tools for Accessing Web-based Resources
Shared Digitization Infrastructure, including Digital Archiving
Storage
Distance Education/Off Campus Library Services
A new vision emerged from this process --one that set forth an integrated and
dynamic approach for higher education by supporting teaching, learning, research, and
service in Indiana’s seventy-three colleges and universities. The Academic Libraries of
Indiana, a not-for-profit consortium, took the lead in 2003 to manage this tactical and
strategic cooperation.
ALI cooperative projects address the rapidly shifting trends in teaching, learning, and
scholarship that have an increasing impact on student success, faculty excellence, and
economic development. New and emerging curricular and research trends,
pedagogical styles, changing classroom and academic technologies, burgeoning
network bandwidth support needs, shifting scholarly communication models, and
increased faculty and student expectations for access. A stronger information
infrastructure that also provides enhanced information content is critical for economic
development in the state.
Organizational Structure
The Academic Libraries of Indiana has a 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation status that
enables it to best address our collective needs and implementation strategies. This
non-profit status allows ALI to seek private and federal grant funding as well as state
funding through Indiana partner organizations, such as INCOLSA, the State Library,
and the Indiana Commission on Higher Education.
To qualify for membership, academic libraries must be part of a not-for-profit institution
of higher education within Indiana accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of
the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools or the Association of
Theological Schools. Participating libraries pay an annual fee to fund ALI’s
administrative costs and core services that are available to all members. Currently all
seventy-three academic libraries in Indiana are members of the Academic Libraries of
Indiana .All additional projects are voluntary, with costs shared among specific
participants or funded by grants. The governing group is the membership composed of
the library directors of the member libraries or their designated representative. The
membership adopted Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws .The membership has the
sole authority to adopt the annual budget, the strategic plan and to deliberate and
consider other matters referred to it by the board of directors.
The sixteen-member board of directors is composed of board representatives selected
by each of the following constituent groups: Privates -PALNI members (3) Notre
Program Goals
In response to increasing demands for immediate access, ALI members offer full text
content online. Through member cooperative programs, the interlibrary lending and
delivery system supporting access to all Indiana academic library collections will be
improved. ALI members also initiate a collaborative approach to the preservation,
storage, and on-demand access to lower-use, but still vital, print collections.
Consortial Resources for Improving Learning, Teaching, Research,
and Service
Expanded online academic content: Building on INSPIRE, a state-wide package of
databases and full text resources available to all Indiana citizens, members of ALI will
identify a core set of significant full-text academic resources to further enrich
information content accessible by all our students and faculty. In addition to academic
content, ALI provides an organizational environment for members to partner in the
purchase of electronic information resources of consortial interest.
Improved access to collections: A cooperative program of interlibrary lending has
been in place for decades, evolving with technology, and continuing to improve as
individual libraries have upgraded their internal operations. With collaborative actions,
significant improvements in service, access, timeliness, and flexibility have been
realized.
Digital repository: Drawing on the advanced digitization skills held by Indiana
librarians as well as models for collaborative digitization projects in other states, ALI
creates a shared platform of digitization standards, IT equipment, training and search
systems. Cooperation using shared standards enables cultural and scientific heritage
repositories to create digital versions of their rare and unique collections. To the extent
permitted by copyright and license agreements, ALI members will make digital images
available to all citizens of Indiana and beyond. Integrating digital collections with other
Internet projects provides a Web-based repository for Indiana’s unique culture and
history.
Collaborative preservation and storage facilities for physical collections: ALI’s
initiatives to improve access to full text content are enhanced by simultaneously
supporting Indiana academic libraries’ responsibilities to preserve and maintain their
print collections in order to sustain access to the scholarly record. A cooperative
preservation and storage plan enables ALI to leverage Indiana University’s
considerable investment in storage facilities in Bloomington. The cooperative
preservation program allows academic libraries to allocate limited resources more
effectively amid the growing tension between loss of purchasing power or outright
budget reductions and continuing demands for new and improved services.
Access to special collections and unique resources: Indiana’s academic libraries
hold thousands of unique and valuable materials in special collections and archives
previously available only to scholars willing to travel to those libraries. Digital, 365/24/7
repositories connect the user to this information content without the cost ,effort, and
inconvenience of travel.
Improving Information Infrastructure
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ACADEMIC LIBRARIES OF INDIANA
About ALI
http://academiclibrariesofindiana.org/about
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Home About ALI Mission Programs Directors Members Listservs Archives Statistics
Overview &Introduction
Inspired by the potential enhancements to scholarship, teaching, research,
preservation, access, academic achievement, and as well as operational and economic
efficiency, six planning task forces representing diverse academic settings convened to
analyze academic needs, review trends and formulate potential solutions.
Licensing
Resource Sharing
Tools for Accessing Web-based Resources
Shared Digitization Infrastructure, including Digital Archiving
Storage
Distance Education/Off Campus Library Services
A new vision emerged from this process --one that set forth an integrated and
dynamic approach for higher education by supporting teaching, learning, research, and
service in Indiana’s seventy-three colleges and universities. The Academic Libraries of
Indiana, a not-for-profit consortium, took the lead in 2003 to manage this tactical and
strategic cooperation.
ALI cooperative projects address the rapidly shifting trends in teaching, learning, and
scholarship that have an increasing impact on student success, faculty excellence, and
economic development. New and emerging curricular and research trends,
pedagogical styles, changing classroom and academic technologies, burgeoning
network bandwidth support needs, shifting scholarly communication models, and
increased faculty and student expectations for access. A stronger information
infrastructure that also provides enhanced information content is critical for economic
development in the state.
Organizational Structure
The Academic Libraries of Indiana has a 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation status that
enables it to best address our collective needs and implementation strategies. This
non-profit status allows ALI to seek private and federal grant funding as well as state
funding through Indiana partner organizations, such as INCOLSA, the State Library,
and the Indiana Commission on Higher Education.
To qualify for membership, academic libraries must be part of a not-for-profit institution
of higher education within Indiana accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of
the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools or the Association of
Theological Schools. Participating libraries pay an annual fee to fund ALI’s
administrative costs and core services that are available to all members. Currently all
seventy-three academic libraries in Indiana are members of the Academic Libraries of
Indiana .All additional projects are voluntary, with costs shared among specific
participants or funded by grants. The governing group is the membership composed of
the library directors of the member libraries or their designated representative. The
membership adopted Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws .The membership has the
sole authority to adopt the annual budget, the strategic plan and to deliberate and
consider other matters referred to it by the board of directors.
The sixteen-member board of directors is composed of board representatives selected
by each of the following constituent groups: Privates -PALNI members (3) Notre
Program Goals
In response to increasing demands for immediate access, ALI members offer full text
content online. Through member cooperative programs, the interlibrary lending and
delivery system supporting access to all Indiana academic library collections will be
improved. ALI members also initiate a collaborative approach to the preservation,
storage, and on-demand access to lower-use, but still vital, print collections.
Consortial Resources for Improving Learning, Teaching, Research,
and Service
Expanded online academic content: Building on INSPIRE, a state-wide package of
databases and full text resources available to all Indiana citizens, members of ALI will
identify a core set of significant full-text academic resources to further enrich
information content accessible by all our students and faculty. In addition to academic
content, ALI provides an organizational environment for members to partner in the
purchase of electronic information resources of consortial interest.
Improved access to collections: A cooperative program of interlibrary lending has
been in place for decades, evolving with technology, and continuing to improve as
individual libraries have upgraded their internal operations. With collaborative actions,
significant improvements in service, access, timeliness, and flexibility have been
realized.
Digital repository: Drawing on the advanced digitization skills held by Indiana
librarians as well as models for collaborative digitization projects in other states, ALI
creates a shared platform of digitization standards, IT equipment, training and search
systems. Cooperation using shared standards enables cultural and scientific heritage
repositories to create digital versions of their rare and unique collections. To the extent
permitted by copyright and license agreements, ALI members will make digital images
available to all citizens of Indiana and beyond. Integrating digital collections with other
Internet projects provides a Web-based repository for Indiana’s unique culture and
history.
Collaborative preservation and storage facilities for physical collections: ALI’s
initiatives to improve access to full text content are enhanced by simultaneously
supporting Indiana academic libraries’ responsibilities to preserve and maintain their
print collections in order to sustain access to the scholarly record. A cooperative
preservation and storage plan enables ALI to leverage Indiana University’s
considerable investment in storage facilities in Bloomington. The cooperative
preservation program allows academic libraries to allocate limited resources more
effectively amid the growing tension between loss of purchasing power or outright
budget reductions and continuing demands for new and improved services.
Access to special collections and unique resources: Indiana’s academic libraries
hold thousands of unique and valuable materials in special collections and archives
previously available only to scholars willing to travel to those libraries. Digital, 365/24/7
repositories connect the user to this information content without the cost ,effort, and
inconvenience of travel.
Improving Information Infrastructure
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