What is Summit?
Summit is the library catalog for the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a library consortium composed of public and private colleges, community colleges, and universities in the Pacific Northwest. Through Summit you have access to over 28.7 million books, sound recordings, films, video tapes, and more. Although distances between member libraries can exceed 500 miles, faculty, staff, and students are able to access a unified library collection on the Web from their library, office or home computer. This system allows patrons to use the resources of all member libraries. At peak times, Summit is used to deliver more than 1,000 books each day. The alliance provides a courier service for delivery throughout Oregon and Washington. The goal of the Alliance is to deliver requested material in three to five business days.
