The following information was provided by Assistant Dean of University Libraries Tim Bucknall : Every few years, we do a school-by-school and deal-by-deal cost avoidance calculation for the Carolina Consortium (CC). This represents the savings as compared to what it would cost each school to receive the same journals without participating in the savings negotiated by the Consortium. I just finished the 2016 CC spreadsheet, and I'm very pleased to report that our collective annual cost avoidance is now $338,437,086. A few fun facts: - UNCG's savings is $9,577,238 from 34 ongoing CC deals (10th biggest savings out of the CC's 184 libraries) - the biggest savers are UNC Pembroke ($11M), Western Carolina ($10.9M), and UNC Asheville ($10.8M) - the biggest non-UNC system saver is Lenoir-Rhyne ($10.6M) - The 17 schools of the UNC System have 329 ongoing CC deals and save $115 million, which is 34% of all the CC savings. - Not everyone saves big. Two schools (both comm...
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