If anyone is interested in seeing what one of the things that the ACCIAC does, here is the program from this year's undergrad research conference. Everyone, even Louisville, was represented except for Syracuse.

Also nice to see a former mentor of mine at Pitt was participating.

http://college.wfu.edu/accmom2013/wp-con...ebsite.pdf

Someone needs to tell the girl from Duke that card counting isn't illegal.

Thank you for posting. It was interesting reading. I doubt many in the ACC academic community will be surprised at the level of research excellence at the UofL. Exciting times to be a UofL researcher.
CJ

Good read but the IAC website is in dire need of an update.

What happened to the idea of linking all of the ACC libraries?

(07-12-2013 08:14 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  Good read but the IAC website is in dire need of an update.

What happened to the idea of linking all of the ACC libraries?

Uh, pretty much all academic libraries are already linked. Ever heard of interlibrary loans? Pretty much the same thing, and every member of the ACC is a member of the Online Computer Library Center, but now everything is going digital.

Today, you have things like the Hathi Trust, so between that and interlibrary loans it is sort of redundant to do it through something like the ACCIAC.

BC, Duke, FSU, MD, UNC, NC State, ND, Pitt, Syracuse, UVA, Virginia Tech and Wake are already members of the Hathi Trust along with all of the Ivy, Big Ten and Cal schools. So really, you are just talking about Miami, Georgia Tech, Clemson, and Louisville that aren't hooked into this digital consortium, and the question is, why aren't they?

(07-12-2013 04:03 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote:  ... Georgia Tech ... that aren't hooked into this digital consortium, and the question is, why aren't they?

No liberal arts.

(07-12-2013 04:06 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(07-12-2013 04:03 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote:  ... Georgia Tech ... that aren't hooked into this digital consortium, and the question is, why aren't they?

No liberal arts.

That might explain GT, but only GT, and it isn't like the consortium is just about arts & sciences. MIT is a member too, but not Cal Tech.

(07-12-2013 04:03 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote:  

(07-12-2013 08:14 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  Good read but the IAC website is in dire need of an update.

What happened to the idea of linking all of the ACC libraries?

Uh, pretty much all academic libraries are already linked. Ever heard of interlibrary loans? Pretty much the same thing, and every member of the ACC is a member of the Online Computer Library Center, but now everything is going digital.

Today, you have things like the Hathi Trust, so between that and interlibrary loans it is sort of redundant to do it through something like the ACCIAC.

BC, Duke, FSU, MD, UNC, NC State, ND, Pitt, Syracuse, UVA, Virginia Tech and Wake are already members of the Hathi Trust along with all of the Ivy, Big Ten and Cal schools. So really, you are just talking about Miami, Georgia Tech, Clemson, and Louisville that aren't hooked into this digital consortium, and the question is, why aren't they?

I'm not familiar with this subject. What is the difference between the inter library loans+ Hathi Trust and the CIC equivalent?



http://www.cic.net/news-and-publications...of-the-cic

Quote:The addition of the University of Maryland and Rutgers University will increase CIC membership to 15 institutions, which includes the Big Ten Conference institutions and the University of Chicago. All CIC universities share a very strong research emphasis. Together CIC universities engage in $8.4 billion in funded research each year—the addition of these two universities will push that to $9.3 billion, and will add another 8 million library volumes and over 5,600 more full-time faculty to the collective resources of the consortium. In addition, these new colleagues bring leading-edge collaborative research programs such as the Cell and DNA Repository and UN Study Program at Rutgers and the National Foreign Language Center and National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at Maryland.

From sharing lab resources and facilities, to digitizing millions of book volumes, to strategically co-investing in technology infrastructure, CIC universities work smarter, harder, together every day.

(07-12-2013 05:12 PM)Dasville Wrote:  

(07-12-2013 04:03 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote:  

(07-12-2013 08:14 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  Good read but the IAC website is in dire need of an update.

What happened to the idea of linking all of the ACC libraries?

Uh, pretty much all academic libraries are already linked. Ever heard of interlibrary loans? Pretty much the same thing, and every member of the ACC is a member of the Online Computer Library Center, but now everything is going digital.

Today, you have things like the Hathi Trust, so between that and interlibrary loans it is sort of redundant to do it through something like the ACCIAC.

BC, Duke, FSU, MD, UNC, NC State, ND, Pitt, Syracuse, UVA, Virginia Tech and Wake are already members of the Hathi Trust along with all of the Ivy, Big Ten and Cal schools. So really, you are just talking about Miami, Georgia Tech, Clemson, and Louisville that aren't hooked into this digital consortium, and the question is, why aren't they?

I'm not familiar with this subject. What is the difference between the inter library loans+ Hathi Trust and the CIC equivalent?



http://www.cic.net/news-and-publications...of-the-cic

Quote:The addition of the University of Maryland and Rutgers University will increase CIC membership to 15 institutions, which includes the Big Ten Conference institutions and the University of Chicago. All CIC universities share a very strong research emphasis. Together CIC universities engage in $8.4 billion in funded research each year—the addition of these two universities will push that to $9.3 billion, and will add another 8 million library volumes and over 5,600 more full-time faculty to the collective resources of the consortium. In addition, these new colleagues bring leading-edge collaborative research programs such as the Cell and DNA Repository and UN Study Program at Rutgers and the National Foreign Language Center and National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at Maryland.

From sharing lab resources and facilities, to digitizing millions of book volumes, to strategically co-investing in technology infrastructure, CIC universities work smarter, harder, together every day.

Nothing. Although it is claimed CIC institutions get "priority" interlibrary loan processing, there is no real difference. The digitization projects have absolutely no difference. Every member of the Hathi trust has access to the exact same digitization materials and processes as the CIC members.

The only real advantage is that faculty can apply for a CIC library card so they have borrowing privileges as other CIC libraries. So, if you are a Maryland professor and want to drive to Ann Arbor to borrow a book out of UM's library, you can do that. That's a real advantage, see! Yes, the ACC could easily duplicate that stuff if it wanted, but it is all mostly redundant to everything most schools already have in place. It sounds impressive though when you add up the total volumes in everyone's library. It is a real chest beater.

An update: the ACCIAC has instituted a new summer research scholars program in which every ACC university will receive $5,000 to support up to two of its undergraduate students in conducting research in residence at another ACC university during a minimum 10 week period over the summer. This is on top of the annual $12,500 each school receives to fund undergraduate research or innovation projects at each home institution. The new program will start in the summer of 2014...my guess is on July 1, 2014 for reasons that should be obvious.

If you are keeping score, that is $17,500 a year that each ACC school now receives to support undergraduate research. That's small, but in comparison, the CIC+SECU = $0 in direct academic or research support to member institutions.

$5,000 for a ten week summer research residence...aka internship.... or the cost of a summer session tuition - rougly $5,000 is what I paid for the credits of my sports management summer internship last year.