Greater Western Library Alliance

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Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA)
TypeNonprofit membership cooperative
IndustryLibrary services
Founded1999 (1999)
Headquarters,
Key people
Joni Blake, Executive Director
Members39[1]
Number of employees
3
Websitegwla.org

The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) is a library consortium of 39 research libraries located across the United States.

Current members[]

Projects and Associated Organizations[]

  • Occam's Reader. In February 2014, it was announced that GWLA, along with development partners Texas Tech University and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, had entered into an agreement with Springer Science+Business to do a year-long pilot test of the eBook interlibrary loan software Occam's Reader.[2][3]
  • Western Waters Digital Library. In 2004, the Western Waters Digital Library was begun as a collaborative regional project by twelve research libraries under the auspices of the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA). Since its inception, an additional 18 institutions have joined the project.[4][5]
  • BioOne. The Greater Western Library Alliance was one of five collaborating institutions which founded BioOne, a not-for-profit collaborative created to address inequities in STM publishing. BioOne was founded in 2001.[6]

Media outlets and social networking[]

In addition to the official website, GWLA has a presence on Facebook. An occasional newsletter is also issued, and an archive is available.

References[]

  1. ^ "GWLA Membership". GWLA. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  2. ^ http://chronicle.com/article/Library-Consortium-Tests/144743/
  3. ^ http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=6270
  4. ^ http://westernwaters.org/participants
  5. ^ http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/5293
  6. ^ http://www.bioone.org/page/about/organization/history

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