Orbis Cascade Alliance overview

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3.2 Alliance overview John F. Helmer Executive
Director
Council Meeting November 2008
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Foundations
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36 Members

• Central Oregon Comm. College
• Central Washington University
• Chemeketa Community College
• Clark College
• Concordia University
• Eastern Oregon University
• Eastern Washington University
• George Fox University
• Lane Community College
• Lewis Clark College
• Linfield College
• Mt. Hood Community College
• Oregon State University
• Oregon Health Science Univ.
• Oregon Institute of Technology
• Oregon State University
• Pacific University
• Portland Community College

7 Puget Sound
213,000 student FTE
5 Eastern
20 Willamette Valley
2 Central
Cascade Range
2 Southern
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Mission

• to strengthen member libraries through
  collaboration in order to support the work of our
  students, faculty, staff, and researchers.
• Alliance members join together to
• enhance our services
• share our information resources and expertise
• enrich and preserve our collections, and
• develop library staff to meet the challenges of
  a rapidly changing information environment.

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Collection Development Vision Statement

• As an Alliance, we consider the combined
  collections of member institutions as one
  collection.
• While member institutions continue to acquire
  their own material, the Alliance is committed to
  cooperative collection development to leverage
  member institutions resources to better serve
  our users.

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Major Programs and Strategic Initiatives

• Established programs
• Collection Development
• Conferences Workshops
• Courier Service
• Electronic Resource Purchasing
• Northwest Digital Archives
• Summit
• Strategic Initiatives
• Digital Services
• Regional Library Services

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Institutions participating in each program
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Conferences Workshops

• December 1-3, 2008
• Embassy Suites - Portland Downtown
• Facilitators
• Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director,
  External Relations, ARL
• Maria Bonn, Director, Scholarly Publishing
  Office, Univ. of Michigan Library
• Barbara Jones, University Librarian, Wesleyan
  University
• Joy Kirchner, Proj Mgr for Scholarly
  Communications, Univ of British Columbia
• Kara Malenfant, Scholarly Communications Govt
  Relations Specialist, ARL
• Sarah Shreeves, Coordinator, IDEALS, University
  of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Courier Service
281 libraries served through 80 dropsites in
Oregon, Washington, Idaho 24-48 hour delivery
400,000 packages / year
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ER Program

• Databases
• 102 active resources
• Average of 10 Alliance libraries and 2 Nonmember
  libraries on each subscription
• 4.1 million (3.6 million members .5 million
  nonmembers)
• 2.5 million in estimated consortial savings

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ER Program

• Ejournals
• Sage Premier (24 participants) List price
  7,439,496 Invoiced 920,670.
• Wiley Interscience 17 libraries share 84 titles
  and an additional 237 titles from our 4 GWLA
  members. Participants pay an additional 3 of
  their subscription rates.
• Springer 21 libraries have access to 594 titles
  subscribed to by the group. Duplicate credits
  provide access to an additional 707
  non-subscribed titles.
• Cambridge 13 libraries have access to all
  Cambridge titles. Paid 157K collectively total
  value collectively 715K
• Elsevier ScienceDirect 16 libraries share 7
  UTLs. Cost of titles 6.3 million Fees paid
  126K

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Northwest Digital Archives
29 libraries, museums, historical societies and
archives in Washington Oregon Idaho Montana Alask
a Enhanced access to archival and manuscript
materials 250,000 documents retrieved annually
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NWDA search engine administered by WSU
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Finding aids contributed to NWDA
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Summit

• Alliance collection
• 9.2 million unique titles
• 28.7 million items
• 67 unique

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Titles Contributed to Summit
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Unique Titles Contributed to Summit
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Items loaned FY03-08
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Who Uses Summit?
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Number of libraries that own a requested item
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Balanced Lending and Borrowing
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Borrowing per FTE
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Lending per FTE
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FY08 lending between 2 and 4 year institutions

• 18,274

• Community and Technical colleges

• Colleges and Universities

14,843
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Increase in lending of non-book materialshort
loan from 6 to 15 of all borrowing
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3.2 Alliance overview John F. Helmer Executive
Director
Council Meeting November 2008