The Northwest Academic
netLibrary Collection (NANC) is now complete. The collection consists of 3,022 books, of which 54 are
duplicate copies of popular titles, with the final tally of unique netLibrary
books coming to 2,968.
Libraries
participating in NANC
Last updated: February
10, 2003
The Northwest Academic netLibrary Collection (NANC) is a collaborative project of the Orbis Library Consortium, the Washington State Cooperative Library Project (WSCLP), and the Northwest Association of Private Colleges and Universities (NAPCU). The Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) served as fiscal agent for collective purchases from netLibrary and MARC records were purchased via an Orbis collective purchase from OCLC.
NANC membership was available to accredited associate, baccalaureate, masters, or doctorate granting, public or private non-profit academic institutions in the Northwest. For the purposes of this project, the Northwest is defined as Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and British Columbia. The share a collection of electronic books and work together to manage this collection.
Enrollment form.
NANC membership was available to accredited associate, baccalaureate, masters,
or doctorate granting, public or private non-profit academic institutions in
the Northwest. For the purposes of this project, the Northwest is defined
as Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and British Columbia.
Questions concerning eligibility should be directed to any one of the NANC Managers.
Price was determined by FTE according to the following scale
0 - 2,500 FTE: $
2,700
2,501
- 5,000 FTE: $ 4,500
5,001 -
10,000 FTE: $ 7,200
10,000 - 20,000
FTE: $13,500
20,000
+ : $18,000
The circulation period for all titles is set at 12 hours.
10% of all funds were expended on additional copies (i.e., simultaneous users).
Orbis page: E-book
projects: Coordinating with INNOPAC systems
Orbis MARC record group purchase.
Background on MARC record options.
Orbis hosts an email list that is open to subscription by any staff at an institution participating in NANC as well as BCR and netLibrary staff. To subscribe to the NANC list <nanc@lists.uoregon.edu> please send an email message to orbis@oregon.uoregon.edu. Please use the subject line "Subscribe me to the NANC list" and include your name, institution, and email address in the body of your message.
October 15, 2001: Email from NANC Managers
October 24, 2001: Letter from netLibrary
November
15, 2001: OCLC news release concerning offer to purchase assets of netLibrary
November 15, 2001: netLibrary message concerning
OCLC's offer
November 16, 2001: Chronicle of Higher Education
article about netLibrary and OCLC
January 11, 2002: OCLC news release: OCLC purchase of
netLibrary Assets Approved
January 24, 2002: netLibrary off-line ebook reader
discontinued
January
28, 2002: OCLC closes on netLibrary sale
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