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The Orbis Cascade Alliance
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Merger
Overview: outline of tasks Council Meeting Apr. 2-4 2003 Council
update Apr. 2003: news; logo & name Background
WSCLP Washington State
Cooperative Library Project |
Orbis and Cascade are merging to create the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a new library consortium serving more than 174,000 students at 26 member colleges, universities, and community colleges throughout Oregon and Washington. This alliance will combine the successful services of both organizations to greatly expand the scholarly information made available to students, faculty, and staff. Orbis and Cascade will merge their popular union catalogs to create Orca, a unified computer system that will allows students, faculty, and staff to easily search and request library materials owned by member libraries: a database of 22 million books, sound recording, films, maps, and more. As an aid to quick delivery, the consortium will administer a courier system providing daily pick-up and delivery of library materials at 58 libraries in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The Orbis Cascade Alliance will strengthen cooperative purchase programs and bring shared expertise to the purchase of databases, electronic journals, electronic books, and other digital library materials. Through this alliance, member libraries will also sponsor conferences, seminars, and workshops for library staff. |
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Member Institutions of the Orbis Cascade Alliance |
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Central Oregon Community College Central Washington University Eastern Oregon University Eastern Washington University George Fox University Lewis and Clark College Linfield College Marylhurst University Oregon Health & Science University Oregon Institute of Technology Oregon State University Pacific University Portland State University |
Reed College Seattle Pacific University Southern Oregon University The Evergreen State College University of Oregon University of Portland University of Puget Sound University of Washington Washington State University Western Oregon University Western Washington University Whitman College Willamette University |
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