Greater Western Library Alliance

The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) is a library consortium of 42 research libraries located across the United States.

Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA)

Company type	Nonprofit membership cooperative
Industry	Library services
Founded	1999 (1999)
Headquarters	Gravois Mills, MO , United States
Key people	Joni Blake, Executive Director
Revenue	491,935 United States dollar (2022)
Total assets	4,635,575 United States dollar (2022)
Members	42[1]
Number of employees	3
Website	gwla.org

Current members

• Arizona State University
• Baylor University
• Brigham Young University
• The Claremont Colleges
• 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 State University
• Texas Tech University
• University of Alabama
• University of Arizona
• University of Arkansas
• University of Colorado
• University of Delaware
• University of Denver
• University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• University of Houston
• University of Illinois, Chicago
• University of Kansas
• University of Missouri
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• University of Nevada, Reno
• University of New Mexico
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Oregon
• University of South Carolina
• 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
• Wayne State University
• West Virginia University

Former Members

• Linda Hall Library^[2]
• University of Nebraska–Lincoln^[2]

Projects and Associated Organizations

• 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.^[3][4]
• 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.^[5][6]
• 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.^[7] BioOne was founded in 2001.^[7]

Media outlets and social networking

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