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Orbis Cascade Alliance
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Alliance members
37 universities, colleges, and community colleges in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho
Private and public institutions
Serving 258,000 students
Strategic Agenda
Mission Statement
Collection Development Vision
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| Services |
Summit
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Union catalog and borrowing system
9.2 million titles representing 28.7 million items.
280,000+ books, CD's, DVD's, etc. loaned each year.
Partnering with OCLC on the development of WorldCat Navigator.
More about Summit.
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Courier |
360,000+ packages per year; 83 dropsites serving 293 libraries in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. |
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Electronic resources |
Group purchases of databases, ejournals, and ebooks supporting teaching and research. Additional access valued at $12 million annually. |
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Collection Development
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The Alliance seeks to develop the combined collections of member institutions as one collection. Established activities include a group monographic vendor agreement, development of a distributed print repository, and group membership in WEST. |
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Northwest Digital Archives |
Provides enhanced information about unique research collections in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, and Montana.
More about NWDA.
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Digital Services Program |
Coordination and support for online services delivered at the network level. Identifies best practices for provision of digital services and develops or secures the infrastructure necessary to support collection, analysis, and provision of digital information.
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Conferences & Workshops |
The Alliance hosts Code4Lib Northwest and a variety of other conferences and workshops. Past conference topics include resource sharing, collection development, instruction, copyright, digital reference, electronic resource management systems, ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication, International Coalition of Library Consortia, and an annual academic library directors symposium. |
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| Grants & Awards |
Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award; NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) Excellence Award for outstanding IT leadership; NHPRC Basic Projects Grant, IMLS National Leadership Grant; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Meyer Memorial Trust; Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
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| Governance & Staff |
The Alliance is governed by an elected Board of Directors and Council composed of the library director from each of the member institutions.
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| Budget |
The Alliance operations budget is funded via membership dues, interest income, and fees paid by affiliate members. Council determines membership dues, with the current formula based on a 40% flat fee and 60% student FTE weighted fee. The Alliance receives no state funding, although Oregon and Washington public universities receive special allocations that partially offset their fees. |
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| New Initiatives |
The Alliance is pursuing an ambitious Strategic Agenda, including initiatives addressing next generation systems, high-density storage, cooperative collection development, and scholarly communication. |
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| More Information |
Jay Starratt
Council Chair
(509) 335-4558
jstarratt@wsu.edu
John F. Helmer,
Executive Director
(541) 246-2470 Ext. 205
jhelmer@orbiscascade.org
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