Group Recruitment Open!
Please consider joining your colleagues at different libraries to learn, grow and continue the world-renowned work of Orbis Cascade Alliance. Nominations will be open through September 26.
Nominate yourself here.
For the definitions of Standing and Project Groups and the criteria for serving, see Group Structure.
Working with the Alliance – An overview of our structure, Programs, and Groups – Oct 12, 2023 – Recording (Captioning available)
Active Standing and Project Groups
Diversity & User Experience (DUX)
- Accessibility Standing Group (ASG)
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Standing Group (DEISG)
- DUX Community Engagement Standing Group (DCESG)
- User Experience Standing Group (UXSG)
Open Strategies & Digital Content (OSDC)
- A&M Service Participation Project Group
- Archival Metadata Harvesting Project Group
- Copyright First Responders Pacific Northwest
Resource Sharing & Fulfillment (RSF)
Shared Content & Technical Services (SCTS)
Shared Content
Technical Services
Systems (SYS)
- Central Analytics Standing Group (CASG)
- Generative AI Training Project Group (GAIT)
- Online Northwest 2026 Planning Project Group
- Primo Release Testing Standing Group (PRTSG)
Groups on Hiatus
- Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG)
- Digital Collections Working Group (DCWG)
- Dublin Core Best Practices Standing Group (DCBPSG)
- Discovery Training Coordination Standing Group (DTCSG)
- E-Content Group
Work Complete or Retired
- Alliance Sandbox Testing Working Group (Retired)
- API Toolkit Group (Completed 2023)
- Code of Conduct Task Force (Completed December 2021)
- Digital Collections in Primo Project Group (Completed 2018)
- Digital Collections in Teaching and Research Project Group (Completed 2018)
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Project Group (Completed June 2021)
- Equity Exploratory Committee (Completed FY2023)
- Institutional Repositories Platform Project Group (IRPPG) (Completed 2020)
- Open Strategies Task Force (Completed May 2021)
- Primo Customization Standing Group (PCSG) (Completed 2023)
- Primo Standardization Project Group (Completed 2017)
- Rapido Project Group (Completed 2023)
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) Working Group (Retired 2016)
- Shared Integrated Library System (SILS) Negotiation Planning Group (Completed July 2022)
- Shared Integrated Library System (SILS) Task Force 2020 (Completed April 2021)
- SILS Negotiation Group FY23 (Completed FY23)