john f. helmer executive director orbis cascade alliance partnerships between libraries: meeting...
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John F. HelmerExecutive Director
Orbis Cascade Alliance
Partnerships Between Libraries: meeting patron needs through
collaboration
Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference
September 16, 2005
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“Now it's a very difficult job and the only way to get through it is we all work together as a team and that means you do everything I say.”
-- Michael Caine as Charlie Croker in The Italian Job.
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Orbis Cascade Alliance
Oregon & WashingtonPrivate & Public
2-year and 4-yearcommunity colleges, private colleges, public research universities
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7Puget Sound
5Eastern2
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2Southern
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33 Members
Central Oregon Comm. CollegeCentral Washington UniversityClark CollegeEastern Oregon UniversityEastern Washington UniversityGeorge Fox UniversityLane Community CollegeLewis & Clark CollegeLinfield CollegeMt. Hood Community CollegeOregon State UniversityOregon Health & Science Univ.Oregon Institute of TechnologyOregon State UniversityPacific UniversityPortland Community CollegePortland State UniversityReed CollegeSaint Martin’s CollegeSeattle Pacific UniversitySeattle UniversitySouthern Oregon UniversityThe Evergreen State CollegeUniversity of OregonUniversity of PortlandUniversity of Puget SoundUniversity of WashingtonWalla Walla CollegeWashington State UniversityWestern Oregon UniversityWestern Washington UniversityWhitman CollegeWillamette University
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Summit
Courier Service
Electronic Resources
Conferences & Workshops
Major Services
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Summit Union Catalogsummit.orbiscascade.org
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8.1 million unique titles
26 million items
65% unique
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Items loaned: FY03-05
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244 libraries served through 62 dropsites in Oregon,
Washington, & Idaho
24-48 hour delivery
300,000 packages / year
Courier Servicewww.orbiscascade.org/courier/
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Why collaborate?
Network Robustness Bandwidth
Access Standard client Wireless, PDA, etc.
Budgets Tight Very tight
Expectations Rising High & rising
Central funding Yes ?
Competition Rising Rising
Risk Rising High
1990’s 2000’s
Digital products Growing Many & growing
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Successes over the recent past
Continuing education, sharing information, professional development
Electronic resource purchasing
ILL & other resource sharing systems - Sharing physical collections - Sharing digital collections
Digital reference
Courier service
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Physical Asset Repository
Successes over the near future?
Digital Asset Repository
Collaboration beyond “membership”
High density storage
Library buildings put to best use
Cooperative collection development
Home for other collaborative projects
- Digitization
- Preservation
- Instruction
www.orbiscascade.org/rlsc/
Physical Asset Repository
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Digital Asset Repository
AKA :Digital objects repository
Institutional repository
• Collecting, organizing, and preserving intellectual property produced by member institutions (e.g., articles, data sets, software, images, moving images, sound, etc.)
• Digitizing physical assets owned by member institutions
• Providing access to all digital assets across disciplines, material types, and institutions.
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Collaboration Beyond Membership
Serving non-members directly
Collaboration with vendors, computing centers, publishers, patrons
Collaboration among consortia• Informal communication• Formal programmatic affiliation • Merged programs• Changing outdated organizations• Creating umbrella or coordinating organizations• Merging consortia
