The IPLC Library Directors sent the following letter to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy on March 1, 2023. On behalf of all 13 Ivy Plus libraries, we write to express our strong support for the updated policy guidance issued by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) that… Read more »
Author: Galadriel Chilton
Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Joins the Library Accessibility Alliance
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) joins the Library Accessibility Alliance (LAA) as a partner to advance accessibility for library electronic resources, with the goal of providing equal access to information for all library users. IPLC is a voluntary union of 13 sovereign academic libraries: Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University,… Read more »
IPLC Welcomes Three New Staff
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC), a partnership of 13 academic research libraries, are pleased to announce the appointment of three new staff in FY22 in support of the partnership’s BorrowDirect and Web Collection programs: James Robinson is the BorrowDirect Program Manager for the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation. James partners with library staff and service… Read more »
IPLC Supports arXiv
All 13 Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) partner institutions* will provide financial support for arXiv in 2022. arXiv is an open-access archive for nearly 2 million scholarly articles in a variety of fields such as physics, mathematics, economics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, as well as electrical engineering and systems science. Administered at… Read more »
IPLC Seeks a Web Collection Librarian
Description Working on behalf of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC), https://ivpluslibraries.org/, the Web Collection Librarian coordinates the IPLC Web Collecting Program, a collaborative collection development effort to build curated, thematic collections of freely available but at-risk web content in order to support research at participating Libraries and beyond. The Web Collection Librarian will perform… Read more »
IPLC Launches the Cuban 27N Movement Web Archive
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Cuban 27N Movement Web Archive. The Cuban 27N Movement Web Archive preserves and provides access to a broad range of websites related to the Cuban 27N Movement initiated in November 2020 by protesters in Havana, Cuba, demanding freedom of expression and other… Read more »
IPLC Launches the Global Social Responses to COVID-19 Web Archive
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Social Responses to COVID-19 Web Archive. The Archive is an initiative developed by librarians throughout the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, in partnership with librarians at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the University… Read more »
IPLC Launches the South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive. Amplifying the voices of those fighting against long histories of patriarchal dominance, the South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive documents and preserves the work of activists, grassroots organizations, and social justice movements committed to… Read more »
IPLC Launches the Student and Youth Environmental Activism Web Archive
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation is pleased to announce the launch of the Student and Youth Environmental Activism Web Archive. The Student and Youth Environmental Activism Web Archive — an initiative developed by Kris Kasianovitz (Stanford University), James Kessenides (Yale University), and Joshua Lupkin (Harvard University), under the auspices of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation… Read more »
Appointment of Ginny Boyer to the post of Director of Discovery & Resource Sharing Initiatives
The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) is pleased to announce that Ginny Boyer will join IPLC on November 2, 2020 as the Director of Discovery & Resource Sharing Initiatives. Ginny currently works as the Managing Director of the Open Library Foundation and the Managing Director for the Open Library Environment (OLE). In both capacities, Ginny served as… Read more »