History of collaboration 1977-2016 | Colby Bates & Bowdoin Libraries

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	Collaborative evaluation, selection, acquisition of E-databases
1997	CBB Mellon Project for Library and Information Technology
2000	Maine InfoNet (MaineCat)
2003	Teaching and Academic Honesty Grant funded by NITLE
2004	CBB Mellon Collaborative Collection Development Planning Grant
2004-06	NExpress Includes new partners, Wellesley, Williams and Middlebury Article-level, patron-generated requests (ceased in 2010 replaced with Rapid)
2006-2010	CBB Mellon Collaborative Collection Development Implementation Grant
2008	Combined CBB approval plan with YBP
2010	CBBcat, shared library catalog (Aquabrowser)
2011	Maine Shared Collections Cooperative (MSCC)
2014	CBBcat (shared III catalog)
2015-2016	ConnectNY peer-to-peer resource sharing pilot