Idaho Commission for Libraries

The mission of WELCOM is to supply increasingly diverse materials to community members for education, research, and recreation by sharing and purchasing resources individually or in concert. The mission is also to encourage cooperation and communication between library professionals for the continued professional growth of community libraries.

WIN is a cooperative multi-type library consortium serving academic, public, school, and special libraries in the states of Washington and Idaho. WIN facilitates access to information by acquiring automated systems that serve as gateways to information beyond library walls. Additionally the consortium plans and implements services that promote inter-library cooperation to insure that resources are readily shared across jurisdictional boundaries.

The Valley Mountain Library Consortium exists to provide expanded resources and improved services through systematic interlibrary cooperation among member libraries.

VALNet, the Valley Automated Library Network, is a consortium of public, school, and academic libraries in Southeastern Washington and North Central Idaho working together to share resources and information services. VALNet currently serves 60,000 patrons with over 630,000 items. In fiscal year 2000, VALNet libraries exchanged over 500,000 items among themselves.