International Coalition of Library Consortia

Greater Western Library Alliance
GWLA
Website: http://www.gwla.org

Linda Hall Library
5109 Cherry St.
Kansas City MO 64110

Phone 816-926-8765
Fax 816-926-8790

Joni Blake
Executive Director
joni@gwla.org

Anne McKee
Program Officer for Resource Sharing
(chief contact for vendors)
anne@gwla.org

Number of office staff: 3.5


Brief description

The Greater Western Library Alliance is a consortium of 32 research libraries located in the greater Midwest & Western U. S. with common interests in programs related to scholarly communication, interlibrary loan, shared electronic resources, cooperative collection development, digital libraries, staff development and continuing education.

Legal structure

Non-Profit, membership dues based

Primary functions

Number and type of member libraries

31 Academic; 1 Special

Other information:

http://www.westernwater.org/
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/techreports/index.php?c=1
Last updated February 2009
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