The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a consortium of 38 academic libraries in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho
Joined June 2011
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Starting 2024, the Orbis Cascade Alliance will focus our social media efforts on other platforms. See our website for links and the latest news! orbiscascade.org/
Hard to keep track of all the job announcements on our email lists? Active postings from our members are now on the Jobs Board page of our website! orbiscascade.org/jobs-board/
Members: Have a great idea for a new project or event that would benefit the Alliance? Apply for the John F. Helmer Professional Development Award! The total annual funding for Helmer awards is $5,000. Submissions are due December 1, 2023.
orbiscascade.org/about/helme…
Alliance member staff: We're conducting an assessment to identify and prioritize consortial training needs for all of you! Let us know which topics and methods would be most helpful to you through this form by the end of the day Friday, November 3: forms.gle/tn84WZnMHzgEsfp56
The Alliance will host a Library Carpentry workshop this fall, Tuesday, 10/31 - Thursday, 11/2, 1 - 4 pm! Topics will include:
- Regular Expressions
- OpenRefine
- SQL
Registration is open to staff at all Alliance member libraries. See your discussion lists for the link!
We're excited to announce that Isaac Gilman, Dean of Libraries at Pacific University, has been named the Alliance's new Executive Director, starting December 11th 2023!
orbiscascade.org/about/news/…
Did you miss the Alliance Summer Meeting, wish you could have attended all the presentations at once, or raved about the keynotes to everyone you know and promised you'd forward the slides?
Now you can! Recordings and materials are linked on the website: orbiscascade.org/about/event…
Alliance members: Please submit your feedback on the four Executive Director finalists by August 7! See the Announce list for the link.
Materials and presentation recordings are available on the website: orbiscascade.org/executive-d… (Ask your dean or director for the password!)
The Alliance has launched our FY24-26 strategic plan! See our website for details of the 4 priorities:
📱 Optimize digital resource sharing
📚 Realize the vision of being one collection
🔓 Leverage open content and practices
🧑🤝🧑 Foster a vibrant community
orbiscascade.org/about/strat…
Alliance members: Have you registered for Summer Meeting? This year's theme is CCC: Community-Collaboration-Change. (Not to be confused with CCC: @ClackCollege 😜)
Most sessions will be recorded, but not all. Don't miss the July 12 deadline and miss out! orbiscascade.org/about/event…
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We're hiring a Dean of Libraries! Please help us spread the word. Applicant screening begins May 25. cwuhrprdcg.peoplesoft.cwu.ed…
ALT We are hiring. Join our team! Dean of Libraries salary: $138,695-180,304 annually plus the awesome CWU benefits. Screening begins May 25, 2023. CWU is an EEO/AA/Title IX/Veteran/Disability employer.
Program Managers Lesley Lowery (Technical Services), Lori Hilterbrand (Resource Sharing & Fulfillment), and Tamara Marnell (Systems) are at ELUNA 2023 this week. We're excited to put faces to names and hear about all the great work done by our colleagues across North America!
Tuesday, April 18 at 8 am PDT, Blake Galbreath from @WSULibraries will present at this webinar organized by Library Journal and Ex Libris. Register to tune in tomorrow or receive the recording to watch later!
[Tomorrow] Learn first-hand from @angelawalk, @Blake L. Galbreath, @jamesday24 and @pcalarco about how they connect, collaborate and make an impact in research, teaching and learning - bit.ly/3TRjM19
@LibraryJournal
On Friday we successfully launched our internal tool to harvest finding aids from ArchivesSpace to Archives West! 🎉
Many thanks to the Archival Collection Discovery & Management group members and the volunteer testers who made this project possible.
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Alliance members: This year's Summer Meeting will be held virtually July 18-20, with the theme of Community-Collaboration-Change. The committee welcomes program proposals from staff at any level and from all libraries. The deadline is March 31 at 5 pm!
surveymonkey.com/r/SummerMee…
In the Alliance Winter 2023 Newsletter:
🌞Summer meeting call for proposals
🏔️Summit renewals report, FY21-23
📖Shared eBook program: collection growth and costs per use
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Our very own Data and Digital Services team was interviewed for the podcast, Steering the Digital Scholarship! This is a Brock University DSL podcast.
In this interview, Devin Becker, Olivia Wikle, and Evan Williamson talk about all things digital and … instagr.am/p/CoP-9zbhskd/
Code4Lib Journal Issue 55 features an article by Hui Zhang at @OSUValleyLib about how to set up Google Tag Manager to track usage of the OaDOI Link customization in Primo. Libraries can use this technique to track other clickable elements in Primo, too! journal.code4lib.org/article…
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One of our #WSUPullman librarians took this photo of the seven books she packed for winter break reading and noted that this picture was basically an advertisement for the @OrbisCascade Alliance - "hooray for consortial lending!"
ALT Photo is taken looking down and includes photo-taker's two feet standing next to an open tote bag filled with seven library books from multiple Orbis Cascade Alliance libraries.
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iSchool alum @TracieDHall1, director of @ALALibrary, was honored by the National Book Foundation for a lifetime of achievement in expanding the audience for books and reading.
"It's always the best possible time to be a librarian," Hall told reporters. Congratulations!🎉
ALT purple and gold post reading, "Congratulations Tracie D. Hall. Director of the American Library Association. 2022 Literarian Award Recipient for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. University of Washington Information School MLIS Alum. National Book Award Winner." Gold stars surround a photo of Tracie D. Hall, a smiling Black woman wearing twists and a colorful top. The Information School logo is on the right in gold.