ConnectNY (CNY) is a consortium of 18 New York State libraries and the Center for Research Libraries that lend and borrow books from a shared catalog. Founded in 2003 with Mellon Foundation funding, CNY "supports resource sharing and enhancement of services to users through programs in cooperative collecting, access to electronic resources and physical collections, and expedited interlibrary loan and document delivery." In 2010, CNY became an incorporated 501 (c)3 non-profit organization in New York State. At that time, CNY consisted of 15 libraries and 16 collections (CRL's holding were incorporated into the catalog). ConnectNY lends and borrows a collected total of over five million books. The addition of the CRL collection adds 4.5 million volumes to the shared collection total.
Participating libraries include:
Aldelphi University Libraries - Garden City, NY
Bard College Libraries - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Canisius College Libraries - Buffalo, NY
Cazenovia College Library - Cazenovia, NY
Colgate University Libraries - Hamilton, NY
Hamilton College Library - Clinton, NY
Hobart & William Smith Colleges Library - Geneva, NY
Le Moyne College Library - Syracuse, NY
Medaille College Library - Buffalo, NY
Pace University Libraries - New York, NY
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Research Libraries (RPI) - Troy, NY
Rochester Institute of Technology Libraries (RIT) - Rochester, NY
St. Lawrence University Libraries - Canton, NY
Siena College Library - Loudonville, NY
Skidmore College Library - Saratoga Springs, NY
Union College Library - Schenectady, NY
United States Military Academy Library - West Point, NY
Vassar College Libraries - Poughkeepsie, NY
