Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
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| Established | 1974 |
|---|---|
| Type | Nonprofit |
| Tax ID no. | 84-0819602 |
| Headquarters | Denver, Colorado, US |
Region served | Colorado and Wyoming |
Executive Director | George Machovec |
| Website | coalliance |
The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries is a US nonprofit cooperative of approximately 20 academic and public libraries in Colorado and Wyoming.
Purpose
[edit]The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries was established in 1974. One major function of the Alliance is to share resources and provide the best terms and price to its members by group purchasing.[1] Projects of the Alliance over the years include:
- Prospector,[2] a unified catalog of academic, public, and other libraries in Colorado and Wyoming (current)
- Gold Rush,[3] a database of online article resources (fulltext journals and abstracts) and access options; now primarily an analytics tool for library collections (current)
- Alliance Digital Repository,[4] a consortial repository service supporting the preservation of, management of, and access to digital content (current)
- CARL and UnCover (historical)
Prospector also provides a faster and more convenient mechanism for interlibrary loans from member libraries, which can be ordered by patrons directly from the catalog.
UnCover
[edit]CARL started as a character-based access system to resources, particularly catalogs of participating libraries as they were being computerized, available via dial-up internet long before the advent of World Wide Web. The Alliance system eventually included a subset of Dialog. The flagship Alliance product was UnCover, an article index database. UnCover provides free article search and access to the article text for a fee. The product was spun off in 1988[5] into a for-profit company, later owned by Knight Ridder[6] and then Dialog[7] before becoming briefly Uncover, Inc. In 2000, UnCover was acquired by Ingenta[8] and is now accessible as a part of Ingentaconnect.[9]
Members
[edit]The following libraries are members of the Alliance:[10]
| Library | University |
|---|---|
| Arthur Lakes Library | Colorado School of Mines |
| Auraria Library | Community College of Denver Metropolitan State University of Denver University of Colorado Denver |
| CSU Libraries | Colorado State University |
| CSU-Pueblo University Library | Colorado State University Pueblo |
| Denver Public Library | N/A |
| Douglas County Libraries | N/A |
| Henry Strauss Health Sciences Library | University of Colorado Anschutz |
| Jefferson County Library | N/A |
| Kraemer Family Library | University of Colorado at Colorado Springs |
| Leslie J. Savage Library | Western Colorado University |
| McDermott Library and the Base Library | United States Air Force Academy |
| Penrose Library | University of Denver |
| Regis Libraries | Regis University |
| Tomlinson Library | Colorado Mesa University |
| Tutt Library | Colorado College |
| University Libraries | University of Colorado Boulder |
| UNC Libraries | University of Northern Colorado |
| UW Libraries | University of Wyoming |
References
[edit]- ↑ Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries home page. Retrieved April 2007.
- ↑ "Homepage". Prospector. Archived from the original on June 1, 2022. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
- ↑ "Gold Rush". The Alliance. Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
- ↑ "Digital Repository | Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries". Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2014-09-26.
- ↑ Knight-Ridder to acquire UnCover (Leticia Alvarez) SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum, 1995
- ↑ A new day dawns: KRI acquires CARL. (Knight-Ridder Information), Searcher, September, 1995
- ↑ Dialog Sells Carl And Uncover To Ward Shaw, Online Newsletter, March, 1999
- ↑ Ingenta plc 2000 Annual Report Archived 2008-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Homepage". Ingenta Connect. Archived from the original on February 17, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
- ↑ "Member Libraries". Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
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