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Collection Development and Management
Integrated Library Systems; Request For Proposal; Orbis Cascade Alliance; Ex Libris Alma
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Selecting A Shared 21st Century Management System, Al Cornish, Richard Jost, Xan Arch
Selecting A Shared 21st Century Management System, Al Cornish, Richard Jost, Xan Arch
Collaborative Librarianship
This paper describes the factors that led the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a 37 institution academic library consortium in the Pacific Northwest, to move to a shared library management system. The steps that the Alliance and its 37 member libraries took over a period of years are summarized, including the work of several research and planning groups and a formal Request for Information process. A subsequent Request for Proposal (RFP) process ended in the selection of Ex Libris Alma management system and Primo discovery services for Alliance libraries. The paper also describes the Alliance’s vision for the shared library management system, …