News Archive
Press Releases
Cowles Library launches initiative to share print collections [Drake University, 5.28.2013]
Grand View Library Launches Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative [Grand View University, no date]
News Stories
Share your print collection to expand your library [OCLC, 5.21.2015]
Program unites area college libraries [Times-Delphic, Drake University, 9.19.2013]
COLLEGE PARTNERSHIP: Libraries To Collaborate [WHO-TV, 6.2.2013]
Other Media
Securing the Collective Print Books Collection: Progress to Date [hangingtogether.org]
Blog Posts
June 24, 2017
Chris Cox presented a poster at the American Library Association Annual meeting in Chicago. The poster was entitled “Six Libraries, One Collection: The Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative.”
June 23, 2017
Teri Koch and Andrew Welch presented “Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative Survey” at the American Library Association Annual meeting in Chicago as part of the Print Archive Network Forum. Here are some photos from the presentation:
December 1, 2016
Teri Koch and Andrew Welch examine the various validation methods used by shared print programs in “Monograph Validation Strategies in Shared Print Programs: Variation and Value,” an article published in Collaborative Librarianship, Vol. 8, Iss. 3, Article 7.
July 30, 2015
“Share Your Print Collection to Expand Your Library” – Interview with OCLC.
February 2, 2015
Presentation given at the Print Archive Network (PAN) forum at the American Library Association Midwinter meeting in Chicago on January 30, 2015 by Teri Koch (Drake) entitled: “Print Retention at the Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative (CI-CCI)”
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November 14, 2014
The University of Northern Iowa joins the CI-CCI collaborative.
November 11, 2014
Presentation given at the Charleston Conference on November 6, 2014 by Cyd Dyer (Simpson), Teri Koch (Drake), and Pam Rees (Grand View) entitled: “Good Things Come in Small Packages: Getting the Most from Shared Print Retention & Cooperative Collection Development with a Small Group of Libraries.”
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June 2, 2014
The CI-CCI Library Directors and their librarians/staff participated in a planning session on June 2, 2014, at Central College in Pella, Iowa. The agenda consisted of: selection and acquisitions workflow for monographs, collection budget structure, discovery services (including ILS), and policies/procedures for Interlibrary lending and borrowing. This session will inform the next steps the collaborative takes in relationship to coordinated collection development and discovery.

Cyd Dyer, College Librarian/Archivist, Simpson College, and Terry Trunnell give a presentation on their acquisitions procedures

Andrew Welch, Discovery & Technology Librarian at Drake University, gives a presentation on the Discovery services at Drake