2CUL TSI Steering Committee Meeting, Nov. 4, 2013
Attending: Adam, Kate, Jim, Colleen, Robert
We reviewed the progress of JSMIN so far, which we agreed has been substantial. Now that JSMIN has made its first pass through the Phase 1 recommendations, ideas, and suggestions from the working groups, TSI Steering will draft updates to those teams' charges for the early steps in integration. We will bounce some of the red-lighted issues requiring further discussion back to JSMIN as needed.
We will fold the disposition of non-TSI 2CUL collaborative information and documents (such as Ali Houissa's "Areas of Potential Collaboration Between Columbia and Cornell University Libraries Middle East and Islamic Studies" -- see Naun's email of 10/31/13) into the applied recommendations for formal interaction between the TSI working groups and other 2CUL library divisions.
We agreed that the role of the TSI Steering Committee liaisons to the working groups would remain essentially the same in the next phase of TSI, although we will reconsider current individual appointments. In general, it would be better to allow TSI SC members to play active roles in working groups focused on their areas of specialization and assign SC liaisons from outside those areas.
In reviewing the draft revised charge for the Non-MARC Metadata Working Group, we decided that the first and third bullets (pertaining to the environmental scan and documentation) should be coordinated more explicitly with the Alma decision and the work of the TSI documentation management planner, respectively. Jim will revise both this draft and the one for the DBM Working Group, as well as create draft updated charges for a few more of the working groups, later in the week for review at the next TSI SC meeting(s).
Colleen suggested that we consider breaking up the next set of assignments for the working groups into more than just one phase, an idea to be discussed further as we continue our review of the "Phase 2" charges.