The Global Resources Network [1], based at the Center for Research Libraries [2], welcomes the active participation of North American and Francophone libraries wishing to further the goals of CIFNAL.
CRL asks that a library formally join the project if one or more of its staff are interested in participating in CIFNAL activities and in furthering its goals. The level of involvement depends on the degree to which individual institutions wish to devote staff resources to furthering the goals of the project. As with any collaborative endeavor, the success of CIFNAL depends on institutional commitment and active participation.
Institutions wishing to become involved in the Cooperative Initiative for French and North American Libraries should fill out the Participant Agreement for Institutions. As of FY22, Institutional Members of CIFNAL pay an annual membership fee. The fee is U.S. $250 per year for institutions that are members of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL); the fee is U.S. $350 per year for institutions that are not CRL members.
Individuals who work at institutions that are not institutional members may join CIFNAL by filling out the Individual Participant Agreement. There is no membership fee for Individual Members of CIFNAL.
The opportunity for an institution to participate in digitizing decisions and priorities of ARTFL while supporting its growth is possible through the Sustaining Member Program [3]. Sustaining institutions will also be given the texts digitized under this program.
To learn more about CIFNAL, please contact Marlies Bauhofer [4].
To join the CIFNAL listserv, please e-mail Marlies Bauhofer [4] with your full name, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation.
CIFNAL and ARTFL [6] have been building a strong collaborative relationship since the beginnings of CIFNAL. Early on, ARTFL donated $10,000 and gifts in kind of staff labor to digitize the Bibliothèque bleue [7].
At the 2007 Annual ALA Meeting, it was proposed that ARTFL create a new category of subscribing institutions—sustaining members—who would contribute to decision-making and prioritizing at ARTFL. These members will have input into projects, text selection, priorities for text clean-up, etc. Sustaining institutions will also be given the texts digitized under this program. In exchange, sustaining members contribute a higher fee to ARTFL when their subscriptions renew. CIFNAL will coordinate the process of soliciting and delivering feedback to ARTFL.
If your institution is interested in becoming a sustaining member, please send the signed Supplement to the existing Sustaining Member Agreement [8] to:
The ARTFL Project
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Chicago
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
If you have any questions, please contact artfl[at]artfl[dot]uchicago[dot]edu [9]
Links
[1] https://www.crl.edu/fr/grn
[2] https://www.crl.edu/fr
[3] https://www.crl.edu/fr/node/1175
[4] mailto:mbauhofer@crl.edu
[5] https://www.crl.edu/fr/grn/cifnal/about-cifnal/join
[6] http://artfl.uchicago.edu/
[7] https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/node/170
[8] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/sustain_member_agreement.pdf
[9] mailto:artfl@artfl.uchicago.edu?subject=Question%20about%20Biblioth%C3%A8que%20Bleue
[10] https://www.crl.edu/fr/grn/cifnal/about-cifnal/join/sustaining-member-program