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Membership
Model
The Consortium's
by-laws recognize two classes of membership. These are 1) University of
Toronto Library 2) Libraries in publicly funded hospitals and health care institutions
including the Academic Health Science Centres affiliated with the Faculty
of Medicine.
Selected Benefits of Consortium Membership
Electronic Information
Resources
- Negotiations by
Consortium Office with vendors for collective licensing of electronic
resources
- Significant savings
on consortial licenses for OVID, ProQuest and EBSCO databases and full text
resources
- Centralized management
of consortial licenses, including invoicing and bill payments
- Licensing Subcommittee
and Consortium Office actively pursue opportunities for group licensing
of relevant electronic information resources
- Electronic Resources
Subcommittee evaluates resources' content, platform, interfaces, etc.
- Voicing collective
user concerns to vendors re: performance and quality standards
Resource Sharing and Discounts
- Cooperative resource
sharing initiatives and collection rationalization
- Free lending of
books and journal articles among member libraries
- Lowest available
UTL document delivery fee ($5 per article versus $7 for Associate members
of UTL, $20 for others)
- Free book loans
from UTL (versus $7 for Associate members of UTL, $20 for others)
- Reduced rate for
Urgent UTL service ($5 per title or article, versus $15 for Associate
members of UTL and others)
- Free faxing from
Gerstein
- 13% discount with Login Canada booksellers
- Resource Sharing
Interest Group shares expertise and information and works to optimize
methods of sharing resources among member libraries
Communication and Member Support
- Management of
three Consortium listservs for timely sharing of information and expertise
- Development and
maintenance of the Consortium Web site
- Consultation with
individual libraries
- Networking and
mentoring among members
- Identifying and
sharing member expertise
- Learning opportunities
via participation on Consortium committees and working groups
- Consortium specific
CE courses at low or no cost to members
- Clearinghouse
for other courses and conferences
- Liaison and communications
with Gerstein Science Information Centre
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