Orbis Cascade Alliance overview

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Partnerships Between Libraries meeting patron
needs through collaborationNorthwest
Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing
Conference September 16, 2005
John F. Helmer Executive Director Orbis Cascade
Alliance
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Now it's a very difficult job and the only way
to get through it is we all work together as a
team and that means you do everything I say.
-- Michael Caine as Charlie Croker in The Italian
Job.
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Orbis Cascade Alliance
Oregon Washington Private Public 2-year and
4-year community colleges, private colleges,
public research universities
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33 Members Central Oregon Comm. College Central
Washington University Clark College 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 Portland State University Reed
College Saint Martins College Seattle Pacific
University Seattle University Southern Oregon
University The Evergreen State College University
of Oregon University of Portland University of
Puget Sound University of Washington Walla Walla
College Washington State University Western
Oregon University Western Washington
University Whitman College Willamette University
7 Puget Sound
5 Eastern
17 Willamette Valley
2 Central
Cascade Range
2 Southern
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Major Services

• Summit
• Courier Service
• Electronic Resources
• Conferences Workshops

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Summit Union Catalog
summit.orbiscascade.org
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8.1 million unique titles 26 million items 65
unique
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Items loaned FY03-05
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Courier Service
www.orbiscascade.org/courier/
244 libraries served through 62 dropsites in
Oregon, Washington, Idaho 24-48 hour delivery
300,000 packages / year
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Why collaborate?
1990s
2000s
Network
Robustness
Bandwidth

Access
Standard client
Wireless, PDA, etc.
Digital products
Growing
Many growing
Budgets
Tight
Very tight
Central funding
Yes
?
Expectations
Rising
High rising
Competition
Rising
Rising
Risk
Rising
High
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Successes over the recent past
Electronic resource purchasing
Continuing education, sharing information,
professional development
ILL other resource sharing systems - Sharing
physical collections - Sharing digital
collections
Courier service
Digital reference
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Successes over the near future?
Physical Asset Repository
Digital Asset Repository
Collaboration beyond membership
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Physical Asset Repository
www.orbiscascade.org/rlsc/

• High density storage
• Library buildings put to best use
• Cooperative collection development
• Home for other collaborative projects
• - Digitization
• - Preservation
• - Instruction

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Digital Asset Repository

• AKA
• Digital objects repository
• Institutional repository
• Collecting, organizing, and preserving
  intellectual property produced by member
  institutions (e.g., articles, data sets,
  software, images, moving images, sound, etc.)
• Digitizing physical assets owned by member
  institutions
• Providing access to all digital assets across
  disciplines, material types, and institutions.

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Collaboration Beyond Membership

• Serving non-members directly
• Collaboration with vendors, computing centers,
  publishers, patrons
• Collaboration among consortia
• Informal communication
• Formal programmatic affiliation
• Merged programs
• Changing outdated organizations
• Creating umbrella or coordinating organizations
• Merging consortia

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John F. Helmer Executive Director jhelmer_at_uoregon.
edu 541.346.1835