CIC Currents
February 2005  volume 3, number 4

Scholarly Communications Summit In October 2004, forty-five attendees representing CIC member university faculty, libraries, presses, administration and the disciplines met to examine the current problematic model for disseminating scholarly literature and explore ways to work together to support communities of digital scholarship. Read about their discussion and recommendations in the report:
Scholarly Communication: Access to Journal Literature.    

CIC Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP)
The FLEP helps CIC graduate students take advantage of language offerings not available at their home university, but available at another CIC member university. Scholarships are intended to cover living expenses incurred while attending another CIC host institution during the summer session. Twenty two scholarships, valued at $2,000 each, will be offered for Summer 2005. For more information, visit the FLEP Web page.
The FLEP deadline is Friday February 11, 2005. The application is available at: http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/FLEP/ 

SROP Highlighted in Chronicle of Higher Education
CIC's award-winning Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) was highlighted on the front page of the Chronicle of Higher Education in August 2004. Read the full text:
"Opening the Door to a Doctorate," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/13/04.
Visit the SROP Web page for more information about the program.  

CIC Mission, Vision, Direction

The CIC's Strategic Directions for 2004-2007 encapsulates the mission, vision, areas of focus and operating principles that drive the CIC.  

Upcoming CIC conferences
Diversity Forum at Purdue University –April 3-5, 2005
HireBigTenPlus Career Fair at University of Chicago –April 8, 2005
American Indian Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference at University of Wisconsin-Madison –April 8-9, 2005
Building the Future: Designing Academic Libraries as Learning Spaces, University of Chicago –May 2-3, 2005
TechForum at University of Minnesota - Sept 13-15, 2005

CIC meeting schedule
For full information, visit our Web calendar.
Many CIC meetings are convened at the Big Ten Athletic Conference Headquarters.
Directions to the Big Ten Headquarters are available on the CIC web site.

Did you know…

CIC's collaborative library licensing has realized more than $21 million in cost avoidance since the program began. There are currently 289 license or purchase agreements encompassing 68 different products. For more information on the CIC consortial agreement program, visit the Web page

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