[Libs-Or] Clackamas Community College, 39th member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance

[John F. Helmer]

Northwest colleagues,

I am pleased to let you know that Clackamas Community College is the 39th
member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.

Hooray for CCC!

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John F. Helmer
Executive Director
Orbis Cascade Alliance
jhelmer at orbiscascade.org
541.246.2470 ext 205

Contact:     John F. Helmer, Executive Director

                  Orbis Cascade Alliance

                  jhelmer at orbiscascade.org    541.246.2470 ext 205



Date of release: March 4, 2016



*Clackamas Community College joins** the Orbis Cascade Alliance*



EUGENE, Ore. – The Orbis Cascade Alliance is pleased to announce that
Clackamas Community College has joined the Alliance, becoming its 39th
member. Clackamas has been a participant in the Alliance electronic
resources program for several years, applied for full governing membership
last year, and finalized membership in February 2016.  The college is
expected to begin a migration project in early 2017 and join the Orbis
Cascade Alliance shared integrated library system (ILS) in June of that
year.



“We are so very pleased to welcome Clackamas Community College to the Orbis
Cascade Alliance,” said Faye A. Chadwell, chair of the Alliance board of
directors, Donald and Delpha Campbell university librarian, and Oregon
State University press director. “In voting to offer membership, the
Council of deans and directors felt strongly that Clackamas Community
College is a good fit for membership and shares the strong commitment to
deep collaboration that typifies membership in the Orbis Cascade Alliance.”



“Clackamas Community College has been planning for membership for the last
several years,” said Phillip King, Dean of Instruction and Student
Services. “The library added a new faculty position last year and we are
ready to be an active contributor to the Orbis Cascade Alliance.  Clackamas
Community College looks forward to working with public and private colleges
and universities across the Northwest while strengthening library services
to our students, staff, and faculty.”



In her announcement to Alliance members, Chadwell noted that “the review
team was impressed with the enthusiasm and preparedness of the staff and
administration.  Clackamas staff did substantial research in preparation
for membership and we are impressed with their knowledge of our strategic
agenda and enthusiasm for Alliance work.  It is exciting to have such a
strong new member and key academic institution join from Oregon’s largest
metropolitan area.”



*About Clackamas Community College*

Recognized for its committed, supportive faculty and staff, Clackamas
Community College offers classes and services to a diverse student body at
three active campuses – the Oregon City campus, the Harmony Community
Campus in North Clackamas and the Wilsonville campus. Extension sites are
also located in the towns of Canby and Molalla, where CCC offers English as
a Second Language, GED in Spanish, computer science and plenty of community
education classes. In addition to transfer degrees that pave the way for an
easy transition to a four-year public university, CCC offers students
certificates and degrees in more than 80 career and technical programs.



*About Orbis Cascade Alliance*

The Orbis Cascade Alliance <https://www.orbiscascade.org/> is a consortium
of 39 academic institutions <https://www.orbiscascade.org/member/> in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho that serves faculty and the equivalent of more
than 275,000 full-time students. The Alliance helps member libraries to
advance institutional missions through collaboration and innovation.
Members join together their expertise in seeking efficiency and
productivity to strongly promote the success of students, faculty, staff
and researchers. They bring multiple perspectives together to challenge
traditional thinking and elevate the ability to deliver outstanding
services, programs and collections.



The Alliance supports a number of programs that promote this vision
including a shared resource management and discovery system; standardized
policies and collaborative workflows; a service that allows students,
faculty and staff to easily search and request library materials owned by
member libraries; courier service providing delivery of library materials
in Oregon, Washington and Idaho; enhanced access to archival and manuscript
collections in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah and Washington through a union
database of finding aids; an Alliance-distributed print repository;
cooperative purchasing of databases and e-journals; and demand-driven and
licensed e-book collections.

www.clackamas.edu

www.orbiscascade.org
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