<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><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 Clackamas Community College is the 39th member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Hooray for CCC!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <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">Contact:
John F. Helmer, Executive Director</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> Orbis Cascade Alliance</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> <a href="mailto:jhelmer@orbiscascade.org">jhelmer@orbiscascade.org</a> 541.246.2470
ext 205</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Date of release: March 4, 2016<span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:150%"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">Clackamas Community College
joins</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16pt"> the Orbis Cascade Alliance</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%"> </span></p><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 Clackamas
Community College has joined the Alliance, becoming its 39<sup>th</sup> 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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:6pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“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.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:6pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“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.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:6pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><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 “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.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">About Clackamas Community College</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><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/"><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/"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">39 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:6pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><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.clackamas.edu">www.clackamas.edu</a></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
</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.orbiscascade.org">www.orbiscascade.org</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>