Operating Principles for Technical Services Integration

  1. Shape current and future environments in support of a 2CUL technical services environment that fosters innovation, creativity, collaboration, collegiality and professionalism.
  2. Trust each other's judgment, training, and skills.  Be willing to try out new approaches while being mindful of political realities.
  3. Increase efficiency through the elimination of redundancy and manual keying.  Use gains to implement new and deferred initiatives.
  4. Converse, work, plan and train in unison making communication harmonic, obstacle-free, and transparent.
  5. Assess all projects and committee outcomes against TSI principles and the TSI charge with the future good of 2CUL paramount.
  6. Be mindful of special materials, formats, and all areas and components of technical services in workflow review and integration, e.g. rare books, non-print, CJKT at Columbia, Law at Cornell.
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