The Orbis Cascade Alliance creates and provides access to training materials and documentation for various parts of work performed in libraries and archives.
These sections consider Alliance training from perspectives of (a) learning about the Alliance as an organization and community, (b) identifying practices, procedures, and policies related to Alliance programs, and (c) communicating how the Alliance coordinates and assesses consortial training.
Alliance Training and Documentation Search
Results limited to training and documentation.
Introduction to Alliance Programs and Communities
Resources for folks who are either new to the Alliance or may appreciate a refresher for finding information.
- Community Support: information to sign up for email lists, locate regular meetings, access agendas, and more.
- About the Alliance Community: the who, what, when, where, and why of Alliance programs and services.
- Alliance Terms and Abbreviations: commonly used terms and abbreviations.
Program Training and Documentation Quicklinks
Explore curated lists of training resources collected by program area.
- Diversity & User Experience (DUX): cross-sectional focus on user experience, accessibility, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Open Strategies & Digital Content (OSDC): includes digital collections, copyright, archives, and special collections.
- Resource Sharing & Fulfillment (RSF): includes Summit, interlibrary loan, courier, circulation, and course reserves.
- Shared Content & Technical Services (SCTS): cooperative collection development and resource management, including cataloguing, acquisitions, collection development, electronic resources, and open access content.
- Systems (SYS): technologies and systems support, including integrations and configurations for Alma/Primo and resource sharing systems, analytics, and authentication.
Coordination and Assessment
Additional information about coordination and assessment of Alliance consortial training.
- Alliance Training Ecosystem: a general framework to consider how training and professional development opportunities are developed, organized, and communicated.
- Consortial Training Reports: evaluations and assessments of consortial training efforts.
- Alliance Training Project Group: a group formed to develop curated lists of Alliance resources to support the learning needs of library workers who are new to Alliance work and activities.