Current donor characteristics include:
Top 5 reasons given by individuals who have given $1M or more:
When approaching donors, one should point out not what they can do for you, but what you can do for them. For example, a donor may find qualified workers from among your graduates. It is also important to inform the donor over and over again how the money is being used--RESULTS! Dryfoos sends out a minimum of two letters: the first, thanking the donor for the gift and the second, telling exactly how the donation was used.
Major trends:
Jewell described several activities and developments in resource sharing: OCLC FirstSearch buying group, COPS (Council of Presidents)/CLP (Cooperative Library Project) cooperation, and emerging cooperation with Oregon.
FirstSearch
In 1997, a group of Washington and Oregon colleges/universities developed a joint contract to purchase 87 ports. Cooperation between UW, EWU and WSU had begun in 1994 with 20 ports. Issues that have had to be worked out: allocation of costs by port or by database coverage, selection of databases to license and complexity/timing.
COPS/CLP (http://www.washington.edu/wsclp/about.html)
The goal is to establish a broader pattern of shared resources, possibly involving community/technical colleges and private 4-year schools. The CLP is now in phase 3: refining the shared catalog, establishing shared electronic resources and lookig for a way to provide a distributed library system capable of reaching educational institutions across the State.
Key Issues
Ongoing funding? Organizational questions. Scope and other possible partnerships.
Turpen discussed the reason that we are hearing so much about consortia. Legislative trends are toward consortia -- getting more for the dollar. Three areas of note:
LSTA
The LSCA term "networks" is no longer used. Definition of the word consortia: "the term 'library consortium' means any local, statewide, regional, interstate, or international cooperative association of library entities which provides for the systematic and effective coordination of the resources of school, public, academic, and special libraries and information centers, for improved services for the clientele of such library entities."
FCC Discounts
Consortia are partnerships or collaborative efforts between two or more organizations ina community or region. Not all members may be eligible for discounts, but they may be eligible to be part of a consortia.
Can include schools, higher education, government, PUD's, libraries, cooperative extension, economic development councils, social service organizations, public hospitals, public safety.
K-20 Network
This is a structural and logical network and includes all education sectors.
[Note: CTC has a Web site for sites dealing with the K-20 Network (http://web.ctc.edu/CTC_gen_info/PubDomain/NWPLK20.HTM)]
Statewide Plan for Libraries
The theme at the forums leading up to this plan was cooperation and collaboration, access, and sharing of resources. The Plan recognizes expansion of the "community of interest" and potential partners for libraries.
Profiles of common library consortia include:
Turpen concluded by saying that "we need to open our thinking": to new types of partnerships, look outside our institutions, work toward flexibility and fluidity, and remain aware of political trends.
Burke surveyed the community and technical colleges and created a list of participation by these institutions in consortia or reciprocal agreements.
Helmer presented information about the ORBIS Library Consortium (http://libweb.uoregon.edu/orbis/). ORBIS is a library catalog that combines information from 13 academic libraries into a single unified database. Over 60,000 people are served. 80% of the cost of the corsortium is weighted by FTE, the other 20% is payed equally by all. Of interest may be the Consortium of Consortia (http://gold.ohiolink.edu/consortia/).
