Cooperative mechanisms

Canada & the USA

Diane Costello

Organisations

National CARL CNSLP Consortium Canada

Regional COPPUL OCUL CREPUQ CAUL

Local ELN TAL HKN TUG

International ARL ICOLC IATUL

Local

ELN - Electronic Library NetworkTAL - The Alberta LibraryHKN - Health Knowledge NetworkTUG - TriUniversity Group of Libraries

Regional

COPPUL - Council of Prairie & Pacific University Libraries

OCUL - Ontario Council of University Libraries

CREPUQ - Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec

CAUL-CDBUA - Council of Atlantic University Libraries / Conseil des directeurs(trices) de bibliothèque

des universitè de l'Atlantique

National

CARL / ABRC - Canadian Association of Research Libraries

CNSLP - Canadian National Site Licensing Project

Consortium Canada

International

ARL - Association of Research Libraries

ICOLC - International Coalition of Library Consortia (formerly CoC - Consortium of Consortia)

IATUL - International Association of Technological University Libraries

Some Differences

Balance between regional & nationalTransactions / administrationConsortial purchasing

The Australian Version

National CAUL - Council of

Australian University Librarians

CASL - Council of Australian State Libraries

Regional QULOC, Unison,

CAVAL, ULSA, WAGUL

Unilinc VATL

International ICOLC IATUL