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QuestionIn what ways do Alliance libraries collaborate on technical services?

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AnswerForeign language cataloging pilot, setting holdings/using OCLC for cataloging, preferred vendor program, access and discovery for the DDA pilot, print title threshold, electronic resources program

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QuestionWhat was one of the top functionalities missing from the current Summit Worldcat.org interface, but is coming this Fall?

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Answer Pick up Anywhere

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What was the name of the Summit team that worked with libraries over the last year to automate their Summit staff workflows?

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AnswerSPOT Automation team (A-Team)

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Which institution was the last one to join the Alliance?

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AnswerWarner Pacific

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Which (non-UK) European country is most likely to appear on NWDA’s geographic use statistics in 2011?       

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AnswerGermany

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QuestionWhat ranking system did SPOT decide to adjust manually in April to remove the often sudden jarring workloads that it had caused over the last two year?

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AnswerROTA

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QuestionWhat choices do libraries have to provide access to eBooks in the DDA pilot?

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AnswerAccess through Summit only, load records in local catalog, load local records and rely upon WLC with Knowledgebase

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QuestionHow many broad categories are on the Strategic Agenda?

A. 5B. 9C. 2D. 42

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AnswerB. 5 Broad Categories

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QuestionHow many people get the Alliance Announcements?

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Answer674

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QuestionWhat are the Broad Categories on the Strategic Agenda?

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Answer•Cooperative Collection Development• Future of Integrated Library Systems•Collaborative Technical Services •Digital Initiatives•Discovery

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QuestionWhat prize was awarded to Lewis & Clark College in 2009 for uploading the 5,000th finding aid to the NWDA database?

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AnswerThe voice of celebrity archivist and radio announcer David McCartney on Jeremy Skinner’s answering machine

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QuestionWhen did ‘Orbis’ get its second staff person?

A. 1994B. 1997C. 2001D. 2005

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AnswerB. 1997

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QuestionGive one example of a digital services initiative that the DST is working to offer to Alliance members.

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Answer•Cloud sandbox service•Offline storage•Fedora/Hosted IR•Digital preservation training•Provide recommendations on scanning/reformatting

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QuestionWhat newly developed technology is OCLC using to help provide access to DDA titles in Summit?

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AnswerOCLC Knowledgebase

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QuestionWhat is the name of the digital preservation pilot project the DST is working on?

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AnswerStaying on TRAC

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QuestionHow many people are on the New Board of Directors?

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Answer10 (including John)

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QuestionWhat IR is most commonly used to store documents at Alliance institutions?

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AnswerDSpace

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QuestionHow could collaborative technical services benefit individual member libraries?

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AnswerPrepare Alliance libraries for shared ILS, provide efficiencies and save money at the local level; build common understanding and shared expectations among members

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QuestionWhat activities is the Digital Services Program currently pursuing with regards to digital preservation?

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AnswerInvestigate Hathi Trust and Duraspace (also bring in consultant to discuss use cases)

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QuestionWhat IR solution is the Digital Services Program advocating?

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AnswerParticipate in Colorado Alliance's Islandora/Fedora instance

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QuestionName one of the problems that the proposed Cross-Search and Context Utility would solve?

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Answer•Presentation of Encoded Archival Description finding aids•Uniting many disparate silos of digital content

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QuestionWhat Washington institution recently uploaded the 6,000th finding aid to NWDA?

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AnswerWhitman College (Guide to the Chester Maxey Papers)

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QuestionWhat was the major enhancement the SPOT team was working on over the last year that just got implemented in May?

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AnswerEditions

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QuestionWhich system is the DST in the process of implementing as a consortial IR?

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AnswerFedora

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QuestionWhat assistance can the Digital Services Program offer to libraries needing digitization services?

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AnswerShare information about recommended vendors

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QuestionHow is the Cross Search Prototype different from other metasearch tools?

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Answer•It preserves the context of searches so the user always stays in the same environment. •Allows proper search and display of resources with specialized metadata fields such as archival finding aids, slides, music, etc.

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QuestionWhat Digital Services Program initiative is designed to prevent data loss?

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AnswerOffline storage

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QuestionHow many Alliance Members intuitions are there?

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Answer36

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QuestionHow many e-mail lists does the Alliance maintain in total?

A. 11B. 19C. 20D. 25

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AnswerD. 25

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QuestionWhich Alliance service would help you if you needed a server for a project that can’t be hosted by your IT department?

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AnswerCloud sandbox

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QuestionHow many federal grants have been awarded to the NWDA program (through one institution or another) since 2002?

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Answer•3 from NEH •3 from NHPRC •1 from IMLS

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QuestionWhich month in 2011 did NWDA total over one million document retrievals?

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AnswerApril

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QuestionHow often does the Council meet?

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Answer3 times annually

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QuestionWhat is required to win a weekly prize from Anya?

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AnswerResponse to Weekly Update

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QuestionWhich Digital Services Program initiative can help institutions that need software hosting?

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AnswerCloud hosting

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QuestionWhat is the most retrieved finding aid in NWDA in 2011?

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AnswerThe Guide to the Montana State Prison Records, with 3,161 retrievals

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QuestionFirst paid member of Orbis staff?

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AnswerNancy Nathanson

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QuestionWhat is the Cross Search Prototype?

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AnswerA single interface that provides access to digital collections across the Alliance

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QuestionHow did the name Orbis Cascade Alliance come about?

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AnswerOrbis was in Oregon and Cascade was in Washington and they made an alliance

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QuestionWhat two recommendations did the SILST make in their final report?

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Answer• Proceed with an RFP• Use a procurement process where

the Alliance would serve as the lead organization

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QuestionWhat is the most popular IR in the Alliance and what is it used for?

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AnswerCONTENTdm, used for images

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QuestionRoughly how long has the DST been in existence?

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AnswerApproximately a year and a half as DST, about three years including the Digital Projects Working Group

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QuestionWas the RFI for a Shared ILS intended to select a product?

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AnswerNo, merely test the readiness of the market and development climate to meet our needs

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QuestionWhich database do ER-participating libraries subscribe to more than any other handled by the Alliance?

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AnswerCINAHL

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QuestionWhat are the names of three digital asset management system currently in use in the Alliance?

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AnswerCONTENTdm, bepress, DSpace

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QuestionAccording to projections, when is the soonest that all Alliance libraries might be on a single, shared system?

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AnswerEnd of 2014

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QuestionWho determines what the Digital Services Program does?

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AnswerCouncil

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QuestionHow many Library Directors (and other titles) are on the Alliance Council?

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Answer36

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QuestionName three topics covered in the NWDA.

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Answer•regional economics•forestry•fisheries•natural resources•natural products•urban and rural sociology•progressive movements•local, state and regional politics•outdoor recreation•Native American language and culture•regional religious communities.

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QuestionMaterials in which languages are now being cataloged collectively by Alliance members?

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AnswerArabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean

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QuestionWhich vendors were asked to provide additional information during the RFI?

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Answer• Equinox• Ex Libris (USA)• Innovative• OCLC

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QuestionWhich Summit Committee met with OCLC by phone on a bi-weekly basis over the last year?

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AnswerSPOT

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Thank You !!

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