Abstract
Since its inception in 1998, China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS) has become the most important academic library consortium in China. CALIS is centrally funded and organized in a tiered structure. It currently consists of thirteen management or information centers and seventy member libraries' 700,000 students. After more than a year of development in information infrastructure, a CALIS resource-sharing network is gradually taking shape.
Highlights
Since its inception in 1998, China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS) has become the most important academiclibraryconsortium in China
Library consortia provide an organizational form for libraries to share their resources
The Georgia Library Learning Online (GALILEO), the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), and OhioLINK are among the wellknown library consortia in the United States.I Traditionally, the primary purpose of establishing a library consortium is to share physical resources such as books and periodicals among members
Summary
In May 1998, as one of the two public service systems in "Project 211," the China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS) project was approved by the State Development and Planning Commission of China after a two-year feasibility study by experts from academic libraries across the country. CALIS is a nationwide academic library consortium. Funded primarily by the Chinese government, it is Longji Dai is Director, Peking University Library, and Deputy Director, CALIS Administrative Center; Ling Chen is Deputy Director, CALIS Administrative Center; and Hongyang Zhang is Deputy Director, Reference Department, Peking University Library. Intended to serve multiple resource-sharing functions among the participating libraries-including online searching, interlibrary loan, document delivery, and coordinated purchasing and cataloguing-by digitizing resources and developing an information service network
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