The University Libraries Group was founded in 2000 at Villanova University.

Mission Statement, July 2000:
The mission of the University Libraries Group is to bring together directors of comparable, mid-sized university libraries to share best practices, promote the libraries’ interests, develop benchmarks for assessing quality of service, and discuss current trends in the delivery of information to undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of disciplines. See the list below.

Libraries selected for membership are primarily privately funded. Membership in University Libraries Group is determined by size and quality of library, amount of institutional resources received by library, number and caliber of students and level of graduate programs supported. The group is generally convened at ALA Midwinter for a brief meeting and in the spring for a longer meeting at a location rotated among the members or in conjunction with an ACRL conference. These annual spring meetings, past and future, follow:

May 9-10, 2002, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
April 13-14, 2003, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC (in conjunction with ACRL)
May 10-11, 2004, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
April 10-11, 2005, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (in connection with ACRL) - see photo below
Spring 2006, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Spring 2007 ACRL Baltimore, Maryland
Spring 2008, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Photo from Spring 2005 Meeting in conjunction with Minneapolis ACRL Conference:

List of Member Institutions (with links to library homepages):
American University
Baylor University
Carnegie-Mellon University
Catholic University of America
College of William and Mary
DePaul University
Fordham University
Lehigh University
Loyola University Chicago
Marquette University
Miami University
Northeastern University
St. Johns University
St. Louis University
Southern Methodist University
Texas Christian University
Tufts University
University of Denver
University of Richmond
University of Tulsa
Villanova University
Wake Forest University
Yeshiva University

contact Sue Cady (sac0@lehigh.edu) for more information) 

ULG LibQUAL Survey Results