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

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

Institutions participating in each program Program Member Non- member TOTAL Oregon Wash Idaho Montana Alaska Hawaii Other Coll Development Conferences (ISC)* Courier dropsite forward E Resources NWDA Summit Digital Services RLSC

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

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

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 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

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

NWDA search engine administered by WSU

Finding aids contributed to NWDA

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

Titles Contributed to Summit

Unique Titles Contributed to Summit

Items loaned: FY03-08

Who Uses Summit?

Number of libraries that own a requested item

Balanced Lending and Borrowing

Borrowing per FTE

Lending per FTE

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

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

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