China Academic Library and Information System: an academic library consortium in China
Information technology and libraries
[March 2000]
Dai, Longji~Chen, Ling~Zhang, Hongyang
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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.