International Coalition of Library Consortia

Cape Library Cooperative
CALICO
Website: http://www.calico.ac.za

Brief description

Established in 1992, CALICO is the collaborative Library Project of the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC), a cooperative venture between the four tertiary institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa, viz. the Universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

Legal structure

Other: Section 21 Company

Primary functions

• Collections sharing
• Interlibrary loan/document delivery
• Training
• Other: Shared library and information system, portal and context-linking services

Number and type of member libraries

4, Academic