Timeline Regional Library Services Center

2005
Late Fall	Financial Planning Meeting, to include CFOs, legal counsel, and library directors from founding depositors and potential hosts.
July	Preparation for Financial Planning Meeting.
May	Final report received from Dill & Company.
March	Preliminary report received from Dill & Company.
January	Reese Dill (Dill & Company) engaged as a consultant to review planning documents & site selection criteria; analyze shelving needs, and prepare construction and recurring budget estimates.
2004
December	Cooperative Collection Development and Management Committee formed and charged to develop collection development policies governing an RLSC shared journal and reference set archive.
October	Council reviews needs survey results, approves conceptual funding model, approves engagement of a building consultant, and charges Executive Director to convene a meeting of Founding Depositors to further develop a funding strategy.
	RLSC Task Force completes its charge.
September	Needs survey updated.
May - August	Task Force develops funding models.
March	Task Force members visit Washington State University to discuss consortial use of a storage facility planned for Pullman, Washington.
2003
October	Council reviews RLSC Task Force progress report.
September	Linfield College and Oregon Health & Science University submit responses to the Financial and Contractual Questionnaire.
July	Capital Construction Advisory Group, Funding Strategies Meeting. Group develops concepts for inclusion in a Financial and Contractual Questionnaire for potential hosts sites.
	Council focuses site selection process on Linfield College and Oregon Health & Science University.
	Preserving America's Printed Resources conference, Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, ILL.
June	Consultation with system vendor (Innovative Interfaces, Inc.) concerning potential inventory control functionality of INN-Reach union catalog software.
May	Task Force visit to storage facilities in Minneapolis and Bloomington.
April	Orbis Cascade Alliance is launched following the merger of Orbis and Cascade.
	Task Force visit to storage facility in Princeton, New Jersey.
	Collection Development policies reviewed by Council.
March	In-depth site selection discussions at several member institutions.
February	Briefing for Oregon University System Academic Council.
	Andrew W. Mellon Foundation planning grant awarded.
January	Task Force visit to storage facility in Ithaca, NY
2002
December	Briefing for OUS Chancellor Jarvis & Vice-Chancellor Clark.
November	Orbis and Cascade agree to merge.
October	Council approves site selection criteria and process
	Federal LSTA planning grant awarded.
June - Feb.	Exploratory meetings with administrators at member institutions: Linfield, L&C, Marylhurst, OHSU, OSU, PSU, Reed, and UO
March	Task Force visit to storage facility in Aurora, Colorado.
2001
September	Needs survey completed.
July	Council approves initial task force recommendations.
April	First meeting of the RLSC Task Force