The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a global non-profit membership organization serving the information services community, has announced that Ithaka S+R and the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) have joined NFAIS as new members.
Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit service that helps the academic community navigate economic and technological change. Its work – offering research and strategic guidance – has been instrumental in helping leaders in education know what is coming next, learn from rigorous and well-designed research studies, and adapt to new realities and opportunities.
Ithaka S+R's aim is to broaden access to higher education by reducing costs while also improving outcomes, including for students. It approaches this goal with a legacy of working with universities and colleges as well as the institutions that support teaching and research – libraries, publishing organizations, cultural institutions and scholarly societies. Ithaka S+R is organized into two program areas: Educational Transformation and Libraries & Scholarly Communication.
The Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) was formed in 1996 as a grassroots federation for the purpose of resource sharing with 35 academic libraries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
PALCI's mission is to spur the development of library collaboration in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the neighboring region. The non-profit consortium provides its libraries with collaborative programs, collections, networking and resources. The PALCI membership now consists of nearly 70 academic and research libraries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia and New York. Member institutions include public and private small liberal arts colleges, large universities, ARL institutions, and unique research libraries, like those of the State Library of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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