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Cost/Benefit: Columbia's Principal Serials Cataloger will represent both Cornell and Columbia on the CONSER Operations Committee, and report back to both institutions. PCC/OCLC agreed to let us use the cost savings to fund a BIBCO Representative, at least for 2014. Sarah Elman will have her travel funded to attend the BIBCO portion of OpCo.
Assessment: Permanent commitment to integration of our contributions to the development of national serials cataloging standards. Precedent for information sharing and reallocation of cost savings for conferences,. There is also a national impact with Les Hawkins saying "we realize that shared technical services departments may become more common in the future. We have added the topic to the PCC Steering Committee Meeting agenda in June."
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