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The Steering Committee and the leads discussed the Troubleshooting Team's recommendation that 2CUL purchase the Callisto e-resource monitoring system, and agreed that this seems to be an attractive first test case for joint implementation as 2CUL because it seems valuable, relatively easy to implement and relatively inexpensive. However, the Steering Committee requested more information on cost/benefits and also on any other recommendations for purchase that the Troubleshooting Team expects to make in the future (tracking system, ERM) so that this recommendation can be assessed in that broader context.
It should be noted that Callisto would do work we can not easily do now--it proactively finds problems in e-resources sites often before they are discovered by users. Cornell tried to this manually but the time and effort was prohibitive. There are cost savings even without integrating problem solving since there is a 15% discount if we each have a subscription.
The recommendation on Callisto will be referred to JSMIN for further discussion sometime after the initial meeting of JSMIN next week. This may be a test case for sorting out the roles TSI, JASMIN and the administrative team will play in phase 2 integration.