<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Announcing
the </span></b><font color="#333399"><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Orbis
Cascade Alliance Research Interest
Group</span></b></font><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">
<br>
<br>
The <span class="highlighted">Research</span> <span
class="highlighted">Interest</span>
<span class="highlighted">Group</span> </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><font
color="#333333">has been formed to</font> </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">facilitate
communication and discovery between institutions, providing a forum for
discussion and development of collaborative <span class="highlighted">research</span>
on all aspects of library work. <br>
<br>
The objectives of this <span class="highlighted">group</span> include:
1) Helping
each other learn how to do better <span class="highlighted">research</span>
and
2) Making more efficient use of our collective resources, thus
advancing our
individual <span class="highlighted">research</span> <span
class="highlighted">interest</span>s
more quickly. Pursuing these two major objectives has the additional
benefit of
providing the qualitative and quantitative data necessary for improved
assessment and advocacy.<br>
<br>
Results from our collaborative research would be open and shared for
others’
benefit. <br>
<br>
Potential collaborations include (but are not be limited to): </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Finding
examples of cooperative research utilized elsewhere.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Comparing
existing data between institutions (e.g. web logs).</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Seeking
grant support to fund research activities.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Listing
people’s expertise in various domains and available institutional
resources. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Division
of fees among participants to develop high quality measures (cheaper
and higher quality end product than everyone creating measures
individually). </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Utilizing
the same measure at different institutions (results illustrate each
institution’s uniqueness). </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Utilizing
different measures for the same question. Results indicate the
strengths and weaknesses of different measures.</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Drawing
upon expertise within consortial institutions: information about
conducting research, the study body, or other topics of interest to the
group (e.g. how or when to do an IRB proposal). </span><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Flexible
research groups determine areas of interest and conduct research topics
in
rotation – e.g. one year focus on collection development research, next
year on
user services and the following year on the web. Depending on
institutional needs we could focus these studies in different library
domains
(instruction pre/post test, web site usability testing, collection
development
analysis and more). <br>
</span></p>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br>
<b><i><font color="#333399">Email Discussion List:</font><br>
</i></b>To subscribe visit this website and scroll down to ALLIANCE-RIG
row: <a href="http://www.orbiscascade.org/index/email-lists">http://www.orbiscascade.org/index/email-lists</a>
<br>
<br>
<font color="#333399"><b><i>Questions?</i></b></font><br>
Please email Laura Zeigen (OHSU, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:zeigenl@ohsu.edu">zeigenl@ohsu.edu</a>) or Robin Paynter
(PSU, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paynter@pdx.edu">paynter@pdx.edu</a>)</span>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<img alt="Portland State University logo"
src="cid:part1.00030501.07050302@pdx.edu" align="left" height="35"
width="165"><br>
<br>
<p
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b>Robin
Paynter</b><br>
Social Sciences Librarian<br>
220D Library<br>
Portland State University<br>
<br>
503.725.4501<br>
503.725.4524<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paynter@pdx.edu">paynter@pdx.edu</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pdx.edu/library/paynter.html">http://www.pdx.edu/library/paynter.html</a>
<br>
<br>
“The fragmentation of rational knowledge in the postmodern world has
produced a focus on information that is unaware of its history.” –
Marcus Breen (1997)</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>