Strategic Agenda (2006-2009)

2. Cooperative Collection Development

An endorsement of the work of the Collection Development & Management Committee (CDMC) as reflected in the Alliance's Collection Development Vision statement

Contacts for more information: Greg Doyle | CDMC

2009 February: "Cooperative Collection Development" is judged by Council members to be a very high priority and is among the topics to be considered as part of Council's Retreat.
2009 & 2008: CDMC is helping members implement the Consortial Approval Plan Project and Distributed Print Archive and exploring data mining of Summit for collections information that will aid cooperative collection development.
2007 November: Council approves a Collection Development Vision statement.
2007 July: Collection Development & Management Committee Chair presents the CDMC Report. Council approves the Print Repository MOU in principle and charges CDMC with coordinating the efforts of member institutions that elect to collaborate in the use of YBP Library Services.
2007 April: Collection Development & Management Committee meets with vendors responding to the monographic vendor RFI. 

3. Digital Services Program

Contacts for more information: Kyle Banerjee | Executive Committee 

2009 February: "Digital Initiatives," including Institutional Repositories, Hosting Content, Digital Preservation, Discovery Tool, Scanning and Reformatting Services, are judged by Council members to be a very high priority and are among the topics to be considered as part of Council's Retreat.  IMLS Planning Grant will be pursued through calendar year 2009.

2009-2008:

• Summit Migration: Digital Services Program Manager continues to lead Summit migration.   Resource Sharing Program Manager position is advertised and, once filled, this position will take over responsibility for leading Summit migration and development activities.
• WorldCat Local: group purchase agreement is finalized and approximately half the Alliance membership plan to adopt WCLocal.
• Digital Services Planning: The NWDA Digital Services Working Group takes primary responsibility for surveying the membership and identifying four major areas of interest: Hosting Content, Digital Preservation, Discovery Tool, Scanning and Reformatting Services.  As part of this effort, the working group successfully secures an IMLS planning grant.
  
• Discussions with potential partners, including Colorado Alliance, BCR, OCLC, and Sage consortium.
  

2007 July: Council discusses the Summit Catalog Committee Report and Digital Services Program Manager (DSPM) Report to Council. Council approves the priorities for the Digital Services Program as listed below.

• Next generation catalog
• Data harvesting
• Administrative computing topics: new content management system, migrate administrative database, calendar system
  
• Institutional repositories and digital collections.

4. Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA)

Inclusion of NWDA as a program of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.

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Contacts for more information: Jodi Allison-Bunnell | NWDA Committee

NWDA became a program of the Alliance beginning in FY08.  The NWDA Digital Services Working Group took primary responsibility for surveying the membership and identifying four major areas of interest: Hosting Content, Digital Preservation, Discovery Tool, Scanning and Reformatting Services. As part of this effort, the working group successfully secured an IMLS planning grant.

5. ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication

Organize and host an ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication. 

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Contacts for more information: Elizabeth Duell | Conference Committee

This successful event took place on December 1-3, 2008, Embassy Suites - Downtown Portland.

6. Collaborate with Regional and National Organizations

Pursue collaborative activities with other consortia and groups.

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Contacts for more information: John F. Helmer | Executive Committee

2009: Discussions with potential partners, including Colorado Alliance, BCR, OCLC, and Sage consortium.
2008: Collaborate with ACRL and ARL to host a Scholarly Communication Institute in the Northwest.
2007 November: Council considers and does not approve a motion to expand membership criteria to include state libraries.
2007 February: Executive Committee meets with Washington and Oregon State Librarians in Olympia; Executive Committee meets with the Washington Library and Media Directors' Council (LMDC) in Olympia.
2006 November : Alliance co-sponsors the Northwest Academic Library Directors Symposium
2006 October: Joint TF on a Digital Assets Initiative retired 

7. Building Adequate Organizational Capacity

Creation of a Digital Services Program Manager position (1 FTE) and NWDA Program Manager position (.5 FTE).

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Contacts for more information: John F. Helmer | Executive Committee 

2007 July: Jodi Allison-Bunnell begins work as NWDA Program Manager.
2007 April: Kyle Banerjee begins work as Digital Services Program Manager.

Process of Developing the Strategic Agenda

The Strategic Agenda was created and approved and refined through a process that includes the following major steps:

• Council’s strategic planning retreat (April 2006)
• Summit Catalog Committee’s report (May 2006)
• Executive Committee’s refinement of retreat outcomes & SCC’s report (May 2006)
• Council feedback on Executive Committee’s work (July 2006)
• Executive Committee’s final prioritization, development of resource needs and recommendations (September 2006)
• Council’s final revision and adoption of a Strategic Agenda (October 2006)
• Council’s revision of initiatives 1 and 3.2 (March 2007)
• Council’s revision of initiatives (July 2007)