International Coalition of Library Consortia

China Academic Library and Information System
CALIS
Website: http://www.calis.edu.cn/ (in Chinese)

Brief description

As a nationwide academic library consortium, funded primarily by Chinese government, under the leadership of Ministry of Education, the mission of CALIS is to promote, maintain and improve library resource-sharing among Chinese universities, between academic libraries and other libraries and information institutions.

Legal structure

Government-supported

Primary functions

• Cataloging services
• Collections sharing
• Electronic content licensing
• Electronic content loading/presentation
• Interlibrary loan/document delivery
• Storage facilities
• Training
• Union lists/shared online catalogs
• Other: Consortium Subscription, Resource Development

Number and type of member libraries

Academic: 60
Public: 4
Information service organizations: 10