Revised CARLI Bylaws Approved

The CARLI Board of Directors is pleased to announce that by a vote of the membership the Bylaws of the consortium have been amended. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the proposed amendments, with 98% of ballots cast in support of the revisions. 72% of all Governing members cast ballots. The revised Bylaws are available on the CARLI website. We believe that the changes will strengthen the organization and allow CARLI to efficiently and effectively serve all of its members.

A summary of the changes will be sent in the Executive Director’s regular quarterly update to directors in early January. In addition, the staff will prepare individual mailings to all members, detailing the impact of changes in membership structure and benefits and providing instructions on the preparation of revised membership agreements. This mailing will be sent to Directors at all CARLI member institutions in late January.

CARLI to Purchase Springer Medicine eBook Collection

CARLI is pleased to announce the purchase of the Springer Medicine eBook Collection for all Governing and Associate members. Access to the  collection will begin in January 2010. The Springer Medicine Collection will replace the Mary Ann Liebert journals when subsidized access to those journals ends in December 2009. The purchase of the Medicine collection was recommended by the CARLI Health Sciences Advisory Group, which was charged with reviewing products to replace the Liebert journals.

The Medicine Collection includes all English/International titles published by Springer from 2005 through 2010. The collection currently includes more than 1,300 titles with an additional 325 titles anticipated for inclusion in 2010. The full list of titles in the Medicine Collection, as well as other Springer eBook collections is available on the Springer web site.

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