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Innovation & Success 2022 Now Available!

Cover of the BC ELN Innovation & Success 2022 report
March 31, 2023

BC ELN is pleased to share that Innovation & Success 2022, the consortium’s annual report, is now available! Download the report: https://bceln.ca/sites/default/files/reports/Innovation_Success_2022.pdf

An accessible version is also available at: https://bceln.ca/about/bceln-reports/innovation-success

Highlights:

  • BC ELN libraries benefit from average discounts of 33% on opt-in licenses; over 1,000 products, services, and add-ons were licensed by partner libraries in 2022
  • AskAway and WriteAway received a lift of additional funding in 2022, allowing each to add supplemental supports that bolster the services in response to increased usage
  • BC ELN partner libraries implemented substantial improvements to the Illume resource sharing infrastructure, and successfully eliminated ILL fees for non-returnable items
  • Arca continued to grow in number of participants and collections available in 2022; attention is now turning to a major migration of the technical infrastructure

Special thanks go to partner libraries that shared photographs featured in the report. We are ever mindful that BC ELN wouldn’t exist without partner libraries! It is thanks to the collaboration, effort, and contributions of the BC and Yukon post-secondary communities that we are able to do so much.