There was an important announcement from the Big Ten Academic Alliance, basically (as I read it) committing the member libraries to move towards managing the collections of the members as a single giant common collection. This is an incredibly complex undertaking (as is well documented in the announcement) but promises huge benefits to the participants and their user communities. See
The BIG Collection Introduction | Big Ten Academic Alliance
The library leaders of the Big Ten Academic Alliance have endorsed a vision for a “collective collection.” Going forward, we will orient our collective actions around the challenges and opportunities that come with interdependence and will implement the necessary systems, policies, and services needed to create an integrated user experience of the networked collections,from discovery to delivery.
This follows on a whole series of key strategic collaboration agreements from the Big Ten group, notably their work over the past couple of years on Special Collection interlibrary loan policy.
I hope that we will be able to explore these developments in more detail as part of an upcoming CNI meeting.
Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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