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Greater Western Library Alliance

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Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA)
Company 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

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Former Members

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Projects and Associated Organizations

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  • 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.[4][5]
  • 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.[6][7]
  • 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.[8]

Media outlets and social networking

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

References

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  1. ^ "GWLA Membership". GWLA. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  2. ^ "GWLA Member Libraries". 2005-12-30. Archived from the original on 2005-12-30. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
  3. ^ "GWLA Member Libraries". 2005-12-30. Archived from the original on 2005-12-30. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
  4. ^ "Library Consortium Tests Interlibrary Loans of e-Books". 17 February 2014.
  5. ^ "Mānoa: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Libraries part of the Occam's Reader Project | University of Hawaii News".
  6. ^ "Participants - Western Waters Digital Library".
  7. ^ "Western Waters Digital Library Announces Completion of 'The Foundations of Western Water Policy' - News & Information - Colorado State University". Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  8. ^ http://www.bioone.org/page/about/organization/history
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