Communications

Communicating with the Alliance
Alliance staff, email lists, blog, and committees

Routine business

Direct comments or questions about The Alliance to your library director or institution's representatives to Alliance committees, who can provide explanations or coordinate inquiries to Alliance staff. Or, you may contact Alliance staff directly.

E-mail lists may be used to ask questions and discuss topics with Alliance colleagues. You may submit comments and ideas for topics not yet covered to your to Institution Representative, to Alliance staff, or to an appropriate Alliance e-mail list.

Emergencies

Report emergencies, such as Summit union catalog system is "down," directly to Alliance staff.

Staff at member libraries

Alliance staff maintain contact lists of staff at all member libraries. The list includes information on committee membership, voice and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. See also List of Member Institutions and Committees.

Committee work

Council has approved the creation of committees and task forces. For information on the various groups, committee structure and principles, see:

Statement of committee principles
List and description of current committees
Orbis Cascade Alliance organization chart

Electronic mail lists	Member library staff may sign up for one or more e-mail lists. These lists are closed (i.e. postings are limited to list subscribers) and not moderated. Alliance staff send items of general interest, announcements, and inquiries on the lists – such as project updates and notice of planned down time for routine maintenance. Subscribers may use the list to pose questions, share information, and make suggestions. While these lists may be used to discuss and report on committee work, subscription is not limited to committee members; all library staff are invited and encouraged to subscribe and use the list.
The lists		list name	After subscribing, you may send (post) a message to:
	Borrowing & Lending for Summit Borrowing policies and procedures and issues related to sharing materials	summit-circ	summit-circ@lists.uoregon.edu
	Catalog and Cataloging for Summit union catalog display and function, and including indexes, coding, and record structure (also see Summit Catalog Task Force)	summit-cat	summit-cat@lists.uoregon.edu
	Collection Development and Management for discussing collection management issues and to support the work of the Collection Development and Management Committee	alliance-cdmc	alliance-cdmc@lists.uoregon.edu
	Council A separate list "alliance-council" is available for the Alliance Council & Alliance staff	alliance-council	alliance-council@lists.uoregon.edu
	Courier Service for staff at libraries using or interested in Orbis Cascade Alliance Courier Service	courier	courier@lists.uoregon.edu
	Electronic Resources	alliance-er	alliance-er@lists.uoregon.edu
	Interlibrary Loan use this list for Pacific Northwest ILL: http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/nw_ill
	Library Materials Exchange an email list used to exchange books and other items between consortia members	alliance-exch	alliance-exch@lists.uoregon.edu
	Music Interest Group	alliance-music	alliance-music@lists.uoregon.edu
	Northwest Digital Archives supports the work of the Alliance Northwest Digital Archives Committee	alliance-nwda	alliance-nwda@lists.uoregon.edu
	Preservation Interest Group	alliance-pres	alliance-pres@lists.uoregon.edu
	Reference Interest Group	alliance-ref	alliance-ref@lists.uoregon.edu
	Regional Library Services Center	alliance-rlsc	alliance-rlsc@lists.uoregon.edu
	Science Interest Group	alliance-science	alliance-science@lists.uoregon.edu
Subscribing and using the email lists	How to subscribe. To subscribe yourself to a list, send a message to the address noted below, following this pattern (see table above for list name): Send to: owner-[insert listname here]@lists.uoregon.edu Subject line: please subscribe me Message: Include your name and job title, e-mail address and work phone number. Sending a message. To send (post) a message to the list, use the address noted above. Un-subscribing (removing your name from the list). To remove yourself from a list, send a message from your own email account. Send to: majordomo@lists.uoregon.edu Subject line: [empty ] Message: unsubscribe-[listname] Do not include a signature or automated signature file information for example: send to: majordomo@lists.uoregon.edu subject: [empty] message: unsubscribe alliance-summit

Blog

A blog is set up for topical discussions. If you're not already using it, contact an Alliance committee chair or program manager about its use. How to use the blog.

updated: September 4, 2007