The UCSC Integrated Library System work with many national and international organizations:

• IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• LIBER - Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche
• OCLC Research
• LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
• CLOCKSS - Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
• Innovative Interfaces

IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

"IFLA is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession" (from the official website).

In 2009 the Milan Campus Library's director was a member of the executive committee of the IFLA 2009 Congress held in Milan.

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LIBER - Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche

"The Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) / Association of European Research Libraries is the principal association of the major research libraries of Europe. It was founded in 1971 under the auspices of the Council of Europe. Its current membership includes research libraries of more than forty countries. [...] LIBER actively promotes co-operation with all library-related organizations. It has strong links with the Council of Europe, the Commission of the European Communities (CEC), and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), as well as with national library associations" (from the official website).

In 2012, the Milan Campus Library contributed to the LIBER 41st Annual Conference with the report:

Bridging Boundaries: Mobile Technology as a Tool for Delivering New User-Centered Services for Researchers in the Humanities

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OCLC Research

It's the research center of the librarian organization wider of the world, working to promote the spread of increasingly advanced and efficient services in academic libraries.

The UCSC Library System, first among the southern European research libraries, from 2016 joins to a partnership with another 170 institutions around the world, starting the collaboration with its contribution to international survey Digital Visitors and Residents: What motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?

To know the results:

     > The Many Faces of Digital Visitors and Residents: Facets of Online Engagement

The partnership allows to explore collaboratively with other academic institutions the opportunities of technological innovation for the organization of workflows and for the implementation of the instruments, in order to constantly update the library services in support of teaching and the research developed on campus [ > to official website]

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LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe

"LOCKSS, based at Stanford University Libraries, is an international community initiative that provides libraries with digital preservation tools and support so that they can easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content" (from the official website).

In particular, the UCSC Library System is part of the LOCKSS Alliance group, which gives several opportunities:

• participate in LOCKSS long-term planning (including the knowledge of strategic information by publishers), even by co-opting the Alliance's board of Directors
• collect and preserve premium content not available to the general LOCKSS community
• immediate access to LOCKSS documents and to new software pre-releases
• support to software implementation and access to technical workshops
• receive the necessary hardware and software technical support to shape the scope and the content of our LOCKSS assets

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CLOCKSS - Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe

CLOCKSS is a not for profit joint venture between scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to meet the important challenge of preserving digital content in the long term, for the benefit of the greater global research community. It is an evolution of a similar project launched in 2004, LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe).

The UCSC Library System hosts one of its twelve geopolitically distributed archive nodes (second one in Europe) located in major research libraries that store and manage digital content. Digital content preserved since 2006 in a dark archive managed collectively, can be accessed when a trigger event occurs, making it free not only to CLOCKSS participants, or to current or former subscribers to that licensed content, but free to everyone with access to the Internet [ > to official website].

More info (in Italian):

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Innovative Interfaces

Since 2004 the UCSC Library System is using the management softwares developed by Innovative Interfaces. The current membership in the Innovative User Group has several advantages, such as:

• access to online proceedings and program materials of the annual meeting
• being part of an information sharing and networking community on management softwares
• submitting enhancements to the enhancement process
• voting rights in the enhancements process
• periodic emails detailing the group's services and upcoming events

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