International Coalition of Library Consortia

Joint Information Systems Committee
JISC
Website: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

Brief description

JISC works with further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use ICT to support teaching, learning, research and administration.

With funding from the UK further and higher education funding councils, JISC provides a centralised and co-ordinated direction for the development of the infrastructure and activities, in line with its 5-year strategy. JISC provides: new environments for learning, teaching and research; access to electronic resources; a world-class network - JANET; guidance on institutional change; advisory and consultancy services; and regional support for FE colleges - RSCs.

Legal structure

Other: Public sector consortium for university libraries and the UK

Primary functions

• Cataloging services
• Collections sharing
• Electronic content licensing
• Electronic content loading/presentation
• Interlibrary loan/document delivery
• Preservation
• Storage facilities
• Training
• Union lists/shared online catalogs
• Other: Other IT research and development on behalf of the UK's higher education sector

Number and type of member libraries

175, Academic

Additional material/URLs

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=about