The International Coalition of Library Consortia is meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia.  The hot topic is worldwide budget crisis.  Gathered here groups from Japan to Norway, including NYSHEI, are sharing strategies to protect library budgets, obtain better pricing options from publishers and generally support libraries.

NYSHEI Executive Director Jason Kramer offered remarks to the plenary session on the economic crisis to the assembly, stressing NYSHEI’s efforts to maintain a broad coalition and advance the concern of academic and research libraries among public decision makers.

Commentary and musings from the ICOLC conference will follow in subsequent posts.