Chief Information Officers of Liberal Arts Colleges

CLIR's Chief Information Officers (CIO) Group is composed of 34 directors of organizations that have merged their library and information technology (IT) units on the campuses of liberal arts colleges and small universities. The purpose of the group is to provide a forum in which members can discuss library and computing issues as an integrated whole. These issues are discussed at some length in the article "Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Integrated IT/Library Organization," published in the May/June 2004 issue of EDUCAUSE Review.

The group met at Kenyon College in March 2005 for a symposium at which participants explored issues such as whether a merged organization can provide better service to students and faculty than a traditional organization can. To evaluate the services that merged information organizations are providing, the CIO Group endorsed a project to survey users on several campuses. Survey results will allow a college to benchmark its services against those of other schools.