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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">That is the very issue I am pondering. Thank you, Jacquelyn.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> LIBRARYDIR <librarydir-bounces@lists.ctc.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jacquelyn Ray via LIBRARYDIR<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 7, 2025 8:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WACTC Library Directors <librarydir@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jacquelyn Ray <jacquelyn.ray@wwcc.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [LIBRARYDIR] Orbis Cascade Alliance?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Hi Dawn,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> I did purchase CINAHL through Orbis but switched to back to purchasing directly through EBSCO. I think the cost was about the same but, for the context of my institution, the
administration process and fee made working through Orbis not a plus for me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;background:white">All my best,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Jacquelyn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">​Jacquelyn Ray, MLIS, MA | Director of Libraries|
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Walla Walla Community College<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> Hope, as an ontological need, demands an anchoring in practice.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">We need critical hope the way a fish needs unpolluted water.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Cc:</b> Dawn Hawley <<a href="mailto:dhawley@btc.edu">dhawley@btc.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [LIBRARYDIR] Orbis Cascade Alliance?</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Hello Library Leaders,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Do you subscribe to CINAHL with full text through the Orbis Cascade Alliance? Did you recently sign a new institutional MOU agreement? Does anyone happen to know the cost savings of purchasing through OCA vs just EBSCO?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Dawn<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Dawn Hawley</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Library:
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