History of Collaboration

History of Colby, Bates, and Bowdon Libraries Collaboration, 1977-2005

 

1977
  • Reciprocal Borrowing privileges

1988

  • Shared planning for individual automated library systems (III)

1990-91

  • Priority ILL and intercampus delivery service
  • Maine Union Lists of Serials
  • Cooperative retention of older journal runs
  • Shared retention and collection development of science journals

1994

  • Ariel transmission of all CBB journal articles

1995-96

  • Collaborative evaluation, selection, acquisition of E-databases

2000
  • Maine Info Net

2004-06

  • NExpress Includes new partners, Wellesley, Williams, Northeastern
  • Article-level, patron-generated requests

2005

  • CBB Mellon Collaborative Collection Development Planning Grant