<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Northwest colleagues,<br><br>I am pleased to let you know that Whitworth University is the 38th member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance! </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Given that it is Fat Tuesday, I will simply add<div><br></div><b><i><font color="#9900ff">Laissez les bons temps rouler!</font></i></b><br>-- <br>_________________________________<br><br>John F. Helmer<br>Executive Director<br>Orbis Cascade Alliance<br><a href="mailto:jhelmer@orbiscascade.org" target="_blank">jhelmer@orbiscascade.org</a><br><a href="tel:541.246.2470%20ext%20205" value="+15412462470" target="_blank">541.246.2470 ext 205</a><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt">Date of release: </span><span style="font-size:12pt">February 9, 2016</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">Whitworth University joins</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16pt">
the Orbis Cascade Alliance</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16pt"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">EUGENE,
Ore. – The Orbis Cascade Alliance is pleased to announce that Whitworth
University has joined the Alliance, becoming its 38<sup>th</sup> member. Whitworth
has long been a participant in selected Alliance services, applied for
membership last year, and finalized membership in February 2016. The university is currently engaged in a
migration project and is expected to join the Orbis Cascade Alliance shared
integrated library system (ILS) in June 2016. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“We
are very pleased and honored to welcome Whitworth University,” 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
Whitworth University is a good fit for membership and shares the strong
commitment to deep collaboration that typifies membership in the Orbis Cascade
Alliance.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“Whitworth
University is proud to join the Alliance,” said Amanda C. R. Clark, Director of
the Library and Assistant Professor of Art History. “The library is in the
midst of a building process that includes a new library faculty position,
creation of an institutional repository, and now membership in the Orbis
Cascade Alliance. Whitworth University
looks forward to working with public and private colleges and universities
across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho while strengthening library services in
the Spokane area.” </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In
her announcement to Alliance members, Chadwell noted that “Whitworth University
will be the first new member since 2011 and the first to join since
implementation of our ground-breaking shared ILS. It is exciting to have such a strong new
member and key academic institution join from eastern Washington. Whitworth’s
membership in the Alliance is an important event in the history of the
Northwest’s preeminent library consortium.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">About Whitworth University</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Since
1890, Whitworth has held fast to its founding mission to provide "an
education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided
by dedicated Christian scholars. Recognized as one of the top regional colleges
and universities in the West, Whitworth University has an enrollment of 3,000
students and offers 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. In recent
years, Whitworth has enjoyed record levels of student enrollment and retention,
the strongest financial position in the university's history, and increased
external visibility.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Whitworth
University's 200-acre campus of red-brick buildings and tall pines offers a
beautiful, inviting and secure learning environment. More than $110 million in
campus improvements have been made in recent years, including an expanded
dining hall, a rec center, a science hall, a center for the visual arts, three
residence halls and an intramural sports field.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In
all of its endeavors, Whitworth seeks to advance its founder's mission of
equipping students to "honor God, follow Christ and serve humanity." </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">About Orbis Cascade Alliance</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
</span><a href="https://www.orbiscascade.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Orbis Cascade Alliance</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">
is a consortium of </span><a href="https://www.orbiscascade.org/member/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">38 academic
institutions</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> 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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.whitworth.edu" target="_blank">www.whitworth.edu</a></span> </p>
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