{"id":2544,"date":"2022-09-28T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:26:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:26:46","slug":"sprague-library-joins-palci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/2022\/09\/28\/sprague-library-joins-palci\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprague Library joins PALCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sprague Library has joined The Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (<a href=\"https:\/\/palci.org\/\">PALCI<\/a>), a consortium with a membership of 72 academic and research libraries. Through this membership, Montclair gains access to PALCI\u2019s shared catalog containing more than 46 million items in library collections owned by partnering institutions in addition to substantial electronic content from top publishers. In addition, Montclair will take advantage of PALCI\u2019s well-known EZBorrow resource sharing platform to expedite our interlibrary loan service, as students, faculty, and staff discover, request, and borrow books and other physical library materials from 56 college and university member libraries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGaining access to PALCI\u2019s collective research collection was the best way to meet the needs of a growing R2 public research university,\u201d shared Dean of Library Services Danianne Mizzy. In the coming weeks, Sprague Library\u2019s staff will begin working with PALCI and the consortium\u2019s service providers to plan the technical aspects of the library\u2019s EZBorrow implementation, as well as the training and onboarding of library staff, with a launch date to be determined and announced later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are eager to embrace all that PALCI membership offers \u2014 from deeply discounted consortial purchasing to professional development and networking opportunities \u2014 and to be a supporter and contributor to PALCI\u2019s drive to innovate for the advancement of academic and research library services in our region,\u201d stated Dean Mizzy.<br \/>\nservices.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information see the <a href=\"https:\/\/palci.org\/\">PALCI website<\/a> or contact Kathleen Hughes at <a href=\"mailto:hughesk@montclair.edu\">hughesk@montclair.edu<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprague Library has joined The Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI), a consortium with a membership of 72 academic and research libraries. Through this membership, Montclair gains access to PALCI\u2019s shared catalog containing more than 46 million items in library collections owned by partnering institutions in addition to substantial electronic content from top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}