1. 3.2 Alliance overview John F. Helmer Executive Director Council Meeting November 2008

2. Established programs  Collection Development  Conferences & Workshops  Courier Service  Electronic Resource Purchasing  Northwest Digital Archives  Summit Strategic Initiatives  Digital Services  Regional Library Services Major Programs and Strategic Initiatives

3. Institutions participating in each program Program Member Non- member TOTAL Oregon Wash Idaho Montana Alaska Hawaii Other Coll Development36 2313 Conferences (ISC)*18 1533 126 1113 Courier dropsite 4634 80 46322 forward 65136 201 1201170 E Resources3627 63 352332 NWDA1613 29 1112222 Summit36 2313 Digital Services36 2313 RLSC36 2313

4. Conferences & Workshops December 1-3, 2008 Embassy Suites - Portland Downtown Facilitators  Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, External Relations, ARL  Maria Bonn, Director, Scholarly Publishing Office, Univ. of Michigan Library  Barbara Jones, University Librarian, Wesleyan University  Joy Kirchner, Proj Mgr for Scholarly Communications, Univ of British Columbia  Kara Malenfant, Scholarly Communications & Gov’t Relations Specialist, ARL  Sarah Shreeves, Coordinator, IDEALS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

5. Courier Service 281 libraries served through 80 dropsites in Oregon, Washington, & Idaho 24-48 hour delivery ~400,000 packages / year

6. ER Program Databases  102 active resources  Average of 10 Alliance libraries and 2 Nonmember libraries on each subscription  $4.1 million ($3.6 million members; $.5 million nonmembers)  $2.5 million in estimated consortial savings

7. 7 Ejournals  Sage Premier: (24 participants) : List price $7,439,496; Invoiced $920,670.  Wiley Interscience: 17 libraries share 84 titles and an additional 237 titles from our 4 GWLA members. Participants pay an additional 3% of their subscription rates.  Springer: 21 libraries have access to 594 titles subscribed to by the group. Duplicate credits provide access to an additional 707 non-subscribed titles.  Cambridge: 13 libraries have access to all Cambridge titles. Paid $157K collectively; total value collectively: $715K  Elsevier ScienceDirect: 16 libraries share 7 UTLs. Cost of titles: $6.3 million; Fees paid: $126K ER Program

8. Northwest Digital Archives 29 libraries, museums, historical societies and archives in Washington Oregon Idaho Montana Alaska Enhanced access to archival and manuscript materials 250,000 documents retrieved annually

9. NWDA search engine administered by WSU

10. Finding aids contributed to NWDA

11. Alliance collection:  9.2 million unique titles  28.7 million items  67% unique Summit

12. Titles Contributed to Summit

13. Unique Titles Contributed to Summit

14. Items loaned: FY03-08

15. Who Uses Summit?

16. Number of libraries that own a requested item

17. Balanced Lending and Borrowing

18. Borrowing per FTE

19. Lending per FTE

20. FY08 lending between 2 and 4 year institutions Community and Technical colleges Colleges and Universities 18,274 14,843

21. Increase in lending of non-book material short loan: from 6 to 15% of all borrowing

22. 3.2 Alliance overview John F. Helmer Executive Director Council Meeting November 2008