Consortium Membership

A special Membership model for Consortium

To accommodate the unique needs and functions of consortia representing multiple Clarivate | Ex Libris customers, IGeLU offers the two membership models for consortium members worldwide.

IGeLU supports two types of consortia membership models

  1. Proxy Voting Consortia
  2. Each member of the consortia voting separately as an IGeLU individual Member.

In both models only one invoice is submitted to the Consortia for membership payment.

The benefit of the IGeLU Consortia membership model is the membership fee discount of €50 for each registered consortia member.

The IGeLU the consortium membership model is also attractive, because it saves a lot of administrative work and it enlarges the customer representation.

It is not required that all members of a consortia needs to be form part of the IGeLU Consortia membership. IGeLU recognises that members of an existing consortia may want to operate as a IGeLU Individual member.

The consortia and all members of the consortia are entitled to all IGeLU benefits such as discounted conference registration.

Proxy Voting Consortia

The Consortia would vote as the proxy for all of the registered Consortia members. So if there are 11 members then Consortia would be allocated 1,100 votes and Consortia would vote on behalf of the 11 consortia members

Each member of the consortia voting separately

Registered consortia members would continue voting as per the current processes. This means that each registered consortia member would be allocated 100 points and they can then allocate votes as per current process

Guidelines and rules:

IGeLU Statutes

The IGeLU Statute is mentioning (art. III, 1) “Membership shall be open to any body and/or organization or group of bodies and/or organizations…”

The “group of bodies and/or organizations” in this Consortium Membership Model will be referred to as a consortium, no matter what type of membership the consortium chooses to register.

IGeLU individual members:
  • This is the regular membership.
  • Any consortium that does not want to formally represent other institutions can register as an IGeLU individual member and will be treated and billed that way.
IGeLU consortium member: any IGeLU member that claims to represent other IGeLU members:
  • It’s the decision of the consortium to claim this kind of membership.
  • The IGeLU consortium member must pay for all the IGeLU members it represents and is responsible for all the administrative data of the IGeLU members it represents.
IGeLU consortium institutions: any IGeLU member that is represented by an IGeLU consortium member:
  • This member does not pay itself and all administrative data comes from the IGeLU consortium member
  • The membership voting rights depend on the choice of the IGeLU consortium member.
Rules:
  • A consortium is an entity that presents itself to IGeLU representing a group of consortium institutions to become IGeLU member.
  • Any agency or other collective operating group of libraries that claims the IGeLU consortium membership will be asked by the IGeLU administration to present an outline of the nature and operations of the consortium.
  • The IGeLU Steering Committee has the exclusive rights to allow or deny this form of membership to any application for it to prevent abuse of the membership model for the sole purpose to benefit from reduced membership fees.
  • Each consortium must provide a list of the IGeLU consortium institutions it represents annually, including the name of a contact person and related information for each Institution, to ensure we bill the consortium correctly and to allow consortium institutions attending the annual conference to get the correct member rate.
  • The administration of each consortium institution in the IGeLU database is also needed to give each consortium institution separate credentials to logon to protected content on our website.
  • Each consortium can decide to transfer the voting rights from all consortium institutions to the consortium to allow for collective voting by the consortium. This needs to be decided at the start of every calendar year.
Fees:

Consortia will pay in one lump membership fees for each consortium institution, including the consortium member itself less €50 per consortium institution (including the consortium member itself),  if they want to represent as IGeLU member.

How to apply:

Any consortium that wants to apply for the Consortia Membership Model can contact the IGeLU secretary or the IGeLU Chair