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Alliance members
36 universities, colleges, and community colleges in Oregon and Washington
Private and public institutions
Serving 213,000 students
Mission Statement
Collection Development Vision
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| Services |
Summit |
Union catalog and borrowing system
9.2 million titles representing 28.7 million items.
433,117 books, CD's, DVD's, etc. were borrowed in FY08.
Partnering with OCLC on the development of WorldCat Navigator. |
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Courier |
350,000 packages per year; 80 dropsites serving 280 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 $8 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. Current projects include a group monographic vendor agreement and development of a distributed print repository. |
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Northwest Digital Archives |
Provides enhanced information about unique research collections in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, and Montana. |
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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.
Advisory Partner to the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project.
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Conferences & Workshops |
The Alliance will hosted the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication in December 2008. Past conference topics include resource sharing, collection development, instruction, copyright, digital reference, electronic resource management systems, and an annual academic library directors symposium. |
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| Grants & Awards |
IMLS National Leadership Grant; NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) Excellence Award for outstanding IT leadership; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Meyer Memorial Trust; Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
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| Governance & Staff |
The Alliance is governed by a Council composed of the library director from each of the member institutions. Council elects a seven-member Executive Committee. |
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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. The University of Oregon serves as fiscal agent. |
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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 |
Deborah B. Dancik
Council Chair
University Librarian, Willamette University
503.370.6561
ddancik@willamette.edu
John F. Helmer,
Executive Director
541.346.1835
jhelmer@uoregon.edu
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