library alliance gwla type nonprofit membership cooperative industry library services founded 2000 2000 headquarters prairie village kansas united states key people joni blake executive director members 35 1 number of employees 3 website gwla.org the greater western library alliance gwla is a library consortium of 35 research libraries primarily located in the central and western united states . contents 1 current members 2 projects and associated organizations 3 media outlets and social networking 4 references 5 external links current members edit arizona state university baylor university brigham young university colorado state university iowa state university kansas state university oklahoma state university oregon state university rice university southern illinois university carbondale southern methodist university texas a & m university texas tech university university of arizona university of arkansas university of colorado university of denver university of hawai i at m noa university of houston university of illinois chicago university of kansas university of missouri columbia university of nevada las vegas university of new mexico university of oklahoma university of oregon university of southern california university of texas university of utah university of washington university of wyoming utah state university washington state university washington university in st. louis west virginia university projects and associated organizations edit occam s reader . in february 2014 it was announced that gwla along with development partners texas tech university and university of hawai i at m noa 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 . 2 3 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 . 4 5 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 . 6 media outlets and social networking edit in addition to the official website gwla has a presence on facebook . an occasional newsletter is also issued and an archive is available . references edit gwla membership . gwla . retrieved march 23 2015 . http chronicle.com article library consortium tests 144743 http www.hawaii.edu news article.php aid 6270 http westernwaters.org participants http www.news.colostate.edu release 5293 http www.bioone.org page about organization history external links edit official website this organization related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title greater western library alliance & oldid 700952925 categories cooperatives in the united stateslibrary related organizationsorganization stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 21 january 2016 at 16 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view