History of collaboration 1977-present

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1977
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
  • Collaborative evaluation, selection, acquisition of E-databases
1997
  • CBB Mellon Project for Library and Information Technology
2000
2003
2004
2004-06
  • NExpress Includes new partners, Wellesley, Williams and Middlebury Article-level, patron-generated requests (ceased in 2010 replaced with Rapid)
2006-2010
2008
  • Combined CBB approval plan with YBP
2010
  • CBBcat, shared library catalog (Aquabrowser)
2011
2014
  • CBBcat (shared III catalog)
2015-2016
2016
  • CBB begins DeGruyter University Presses e-Book pilot program
2019-present
  • CBB supports Open Access publishers
    • Annual Reviews “Subscribe to Open”
    • University of Michigan Press “Fund to Mission”
    • MIT Press “Direct to Open”
2020
  • CBB recommits to second phase of MSCC program
2021
  • CBB signs on to Cambridge Read and Publish agreement
2022-23
  • CBB begins migration from Sierra to Alma; July 2023 CBB goes live
2026
  • CBB begins to unbundle from Springer and Elsevier Big Deals