East Coast Consortium of East Asia Libraries

Welcome to the web space of the East Coast Consortium. The consortium goes back to 1984, when its first meeting was held at Harvard. Important agreements have been negotiated amongst its members, most of them pertaining to collection development strategies and cooperation.

Recently, however, the group's focus has shifted somewhat in making use of the NERL infrastructure to set up crucial electronic resources which serve ECC members in the Northeast (and beyond). The group also benefits from a new Interlibrary Loan mechanism called BorrowDirect, a service of the libraries of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Yale that lets patrons search holdings in a combined catalog and directly request books not currently available on the patron's own campus.

This site will be maintained and updated on a regular basis by members of the Cornell East Asia community.

News and announcements:

Yale University is hosting the 2004 ECC meeting on Nov. 29-30. The main focus of the meeting is electronic resources, specifically on Nov. 30, when database vendors will be on hand to give presentations. Check out the agenda and further details here.

welcome. best viewed with 1024x768 resolution. or higher. click here if you do not have flash


	Welcome to the web space of the East Coast Consortium. The consortium goes back to 1984, when its first meeting was held at Harvard. Important agreements have been negotiated amongst its members, most of them pertaining to collection development strategies and cooperation. Recently, however, the group's focus has shifted somewhat in making use of the NERL infrastructure to set up crucial electronic resources which serve ECC members in the Northeast (and beyond). The group also benefits from a new Interlibrary Loan mechanism called BorrowDirect, a service of the libraries of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Yale that lets patrons search holdings in a combined catalog and directly request books not currently available on the patron's own campus. This site will be maintained and updated on a regular basis by members of the Cornell East Asia community. News and announcements: Yale University is hosting the 2004 ECC meeting on Nov. 29-30. The main focus of the meeting is electronic resources, specifically on Nov. 30, when database vendors will be on hand to give presentations. Check out the agenda and further details here.