Thursday, March 26, 2009

COPPUL Spring Meeting

The Minutes from the COPPUL spring meeting, held March 16-17, are now available on the website in PDF format at http://www.coppul.ca/minutes/minutes-index.html

Friday, March 20, 2009

New COPPUL member

COPPUL is pleased to announce that Kwantlen Polytechnic University will become a full member of the consortium on April 1, 2009. Kwantlen has been an Affiliate Member of COPPUL since 2004.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University is one of B.C.’s newest universities with 9,038 FTEs and four campuses located in Cloverdale, Langley, Richmond and Surrey. Areas of collection specialization include Fine Arts and design, sustainable horticulture, Sikhism, Canadian history, genocide and Holocaust studies, and postcolonial literature.

As a COPPUL member, Kwantlen will be participating in the national reciprocal borrowing and resource sharing agreements. They will also be part of COPPUL's interlibrary loan centralized invoicing program.

Welcome to Kwantlen Polytechnic University!

COPPUL Outstanding Contribution Award Winner

COPPUL is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2009 Outstanding Contribution Award is Denise Koufogiannakis, Collections and Acquisitions Coordinator, University of Alberta Libraries.

Denise is being recognized for her service as one of the COPPUL representatives on the CRKN Negotiations Resource Team, her leadership as Chair of the COPPUL LOCKSS Implementation Committee, and her many contributions to the Collections and Electronic Resources Committee, especially in the area of e-books.

Congratulations to Denise!