Merryll S. Penson

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Consortia Funding Sources

• Merryll S. Penson
• Executive Director, Library Services
• August 16, 2001
• Merryll_Penson_at_Oit.Peachnet.Edu

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Consortia are like snowflakes

• Appear in an infinite variety of shapes
• Beautifully intricate
• Varying size and shape
• Generally have a particular outside pattern
• Varying internal arrangement
• Two principle influences that are interdependent
• Libraries
• Economic benefit

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Blizzard of Consortia
Japan IDEAL Open Consortium /
National University (JIOC/NU )
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Funding types

• In kind
• Membership Dues
• Annual
• Special assessments
• Fees for service
• Cost share for service/resources
• Government
• Federal/National
• State
• Local
• Grants
• Governmental
• Foundations

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Primary Focus

• Resource Sharing (ILL, reciprocal borrowing)
• In Kind
• Dues
• Sponsoring Agencies
• Universities
• Local Governments

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Focus

• Electronic resources/databases
• Federal
• State
• Cost share
• Private sponsoring agencies
• Grants
• Federal
• Foundation

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• CAPES (Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal
  de Nivel Superior)

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North Carolina Live
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http//www.colleges.org/library.html
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http//www.anu.edu/caul/index.html
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Focus

• Cataloging, ILL services,continuing education,
  library products, consulting services,
  preservation, provision of discounted electronic
  resources
• Dues
• Fees for service
• Grants

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Examples

• SOLINET
• AMIGOS
• NELINET
• BCR

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Focus

• Library Automation
• Shared Systems
• Federal/National
• State
• Sponsoring Agencies
• Cost Share
• Joint /Union Catalog
• Federal/National
• State
• Sponsoring Agencies

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• National Library of Finland (Helsinki University)
  
• ILCSO (Illinois)
• CIC(Big 10 Universities)
• Nashville Area Library Association (Athena)

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Focus

• Digital Library projects
• Grants
• Federal/National
• Foundation
• Sponsoring Agencies
• In Kind

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GALILEO as an example databases

• Public Universities and Colleges
• Lottery
• State agency allocations
• Board of Regents
• Department of Adult and Technical Education
• Cost share
• Private Universities and Colleges
• Initially a Woodruff Grant
• Cost share
• Public K-12
• Lottery
• Public Libraries
• Lottery
• State agency allocation
• Board of Regents
• LSTA grants (federal)
• Local funding
• Contribution to support based on 5 of population

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GALILEO Interconnected Libraries Library
Automation System

• Public Universities and Colleges
• Lottery(initial purchase)
• State agency allocations
• Institution
• Private Universities and Colleges
• Cost share

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GALILEO Digital Library of Georgia, early stages

• Institution
• University of Georgia
• Grants for specific collections
• IMLS
• Southeastern Native American Documents
• Legislative Documents (with SOLINET, Archives)
• LSTA grants (federal)
• Georgia HomePlace (with Archives)
• Vanishing Georgia Photographs
• Marriage Records
• Local history
• Limited state agency allocation

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Overarching consortia

• Provide funding which encourages consortia
• Federal/governmental funds
• Examples
• Joint Information Systems Committee (UK)
• Italian National Forum on Electronic Resources
• United States Institute of Museum and Library
  Services
• Library Services and Technology Act Funds(LSTA)

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Summary of Grants
and Contributions, 2000

• Associated Colleges of the Midwest
• Information literacy and collaborative
  collections management
• 645,000
• Academia Istropolitana Nova, Svaty Jur, Slovakia
• Public administration, library improvements, and
  general management
• 350,000
• South African Bibliographic and Information
  Network, Centurion, South Africa
• JSTOR
• 340,000

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• Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher
  Education and Randolph Macon Womens College 14
  Liberal Arts Colleges (Pennsylvania and Virginia
• JSTOR
• 292,000
• Library Information Network Consortium, Riga,
  Latvia
• Training and professional development
• 37,500

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• Western Cape Tertiary Institutions Trust, Cape
  Town, South Africa
• CALICO training for library applications
  software
• 50,000
• Eastern Cape Higher Education Association Trust,
  Port Elizabeth, South Africa
• Shared library automation system for Eastern Cape
  Province
• 1,175,000

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• University of California, Oakland California
  Digital Library
• Planning grant and study of alternative methods
  for managing library collections composed of
  print and digital materials
• 750,000

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• CALILCO Cape Library Cooperative
• INFOLIT Information Literacy Project
• Readers Digest Association of South Africa,
  1995-1998
• Center for Science Developments (CSD) research
  and training division

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Conclusions

• Government funds the largest source of consortia
  funds
• Federal/National
• Grants
• Other government agencies
• Consortia
• Direct support
• State
• General revenues
• Federal grants
• Lottery
• Consortia/virtual libraries
• Private Funds
• Institutions
• Private academic libraries
• Foundations
• International/developing countries
• Digitization
• Support of local community
• Support private institutions

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