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Orbis Cascade Alliance and
OCLC consortial borrowing solution
John F. HelmerExecutive Director
ICOLC April 2008
Membership
Oregon & WashingtonPrivate & Public, 2-year & 4-year
Colleges, Universities, Community collegesMembers serving 800 – 40,000 students (FTE)
7Puget Sound
5Eastern2
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2Southern
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Central Oregon Comm. CollegeCentral Washington UniversityChemeketa Community CollegeClark 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 UniversityWarner Pacific CollegeWestern Oregon UniversityWestern Washington UniversityWhitman CollegeWillamette University
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35 Members220,000 student FTE
Summit Union Catalog & Borrowing 35 institutions in Oregon and Washington 9 million unique titles 28 million items 367,578 loans last year
Courier Service 250 libraries served through 76 dropsites in Oregon, Washington, & Idaho 350,000 packages per year
Electronic Resources 62 libraries in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Hawaii Databases, ejournals, etc.
Northwest Digital Archives 31 libraries and archives in Oregon, Wash., Idaho, Montana, and Alaska EAD finding aids, union database, digital content
Digital Services 34 institutions in Oregon and Washington Summit search engine, digital collections, institutional repositories, etc.
Major Programs
Regional Library Services Center Cooperative Collection Development Digital Services Program Northwest Digital Archives Scholarly Communication Symposium Next Generation Systems
Data Harvesting Discovery: Aquabrowser, Encore, Endeca, Local
development, WorldCat Local (Univ of Wash), Primo, etc.
Resource Sharing ILS
Strategic Agenda
“Moving to the Network Level” – April 2006 Retreat
November-March: Proposal developed in collaboration with OCLC Sheffield, UK office
March 20: full day presentation and discussion with board members and technical staff, ~90 participants
March 21: decision to enter into development effort with OCLC for a “consortial borrowing solution”
April 14 News Release
Accelerated work on resource sharing
Discovery WorldCat Group catalog on the .org platform Option for member libraries to implement
WorldCat Local
Delivery Virtual Document eXchange (VDX, Fretwell
Downing roots) Circulation gateway (development) Group SRU target (development)
Integrated solution
OCLC consortial borrowing solution
Motivations
Leadership opportunity
Foster competition in the marketplace
Cost effective
Improved discovery system
Cross-platform
Includes important features such as Load balancing, Pick-up anywhere, Patron tracking & authentication
Probable increase in resource sharing activity
Potential merging of ILL and circ workflows
Strong likelihood of continuous development
Solution based on standards
Strategic partnership with OCLC
April-August Database reconciliation projects for all members to
improve accuracy and completeness of holdings in Worldcat
VDX profiling Circulation gateway Group SRU target Training
Late August: first iteration goes live
September-December: transition!
Timeline
TimeContractTechnical
Circulation gateway Group SRU target
Transition Shut down Start up
WorkflowGovernance and growth
Planning for success
Challenges
Our new slogan! …
“Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night”
Bette Davis as Margo Channing
All About Eve
Orbis Cascade Alliance and
OCLC consortial borrowing solution
John F. HelmerExecutive Director
ICOLC April 2008