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United States 

  • Amigos Library Services: “a not-for-profit membership-based organization dedicated to serving libraries.”
  • Boston Library Consortium (BLC): “empowers a coalition of libraries in the northeastern United States to share knowledge, infrastructure, and resources at scale.”
  • Digital Library Federation: “is a community of practitioners who advance research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative design and wise application of digital library technologies.”
  • Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA): “GWLA, a consortium of research libraries, leverages the collective talent of its members to advance innovation and the goals of our member institutions through connectivity and shared problem solving.”
  • Information Delivery Services (IDS) Network: “a national, mutually supportive resource-sharing cooperative whose 120 members include public and private academic libraries from across the country, the New York Public Library, and the New York State Library.”
  • Orbis Cascade Alliance: “a nonprofit consortium of 38 colleges and universities in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The Alliance runs a shared library management system and discovery interface, works on collective purchasing, facilitates access to unique and local collections, and coordinates resource sharing for [its] members.”
  • Oberlin Group of Libraries: “a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization comprised of leading liberal arts colleges and small universities in the United States and led by a Board of Directors elected from its member library directors.”
  • Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation (PALCI): “[consists] of more than 70 academic and research libraries, in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, West Virginia, and New York. Our partner institutions vary widely in size and mission. Libraries in PALCI have holdings in excess of 144 million and a combined FTE of more than 500,000 students.”

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OCLC

  • A comprehensive list of OCLC Groups can be found here.

Rapido (Pods)

  • A list of all public (non-hybrid) Rapido pods can be found here.
  • California State University oversees one of the most popular Rapido Hybrid pods. More information can be found here.