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Should the chairs amend these charges? Working groups are encouraged to participate in this regard. Non-MARC Metadata group has done some of this and has combined some tasks, e.g., broadened the scope of the proposed environmental scan.
No longer having a mandate to integrate impacts all groups, but may mean different things. Some pressure is gone now that we are working on truly productive projects, not projects for the sake of becoming one department. Some groups may suspend activities until perhaps a new system is implemented.
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Vote taken indicates that most believe we would have more opportunity for collaboration with a shared LMS. How? Receiving, EDI? Collection development considerations. There are areas where we do this without a shared LMS. Do we know what we would really gain by sharing a system. ? Would it make more sense to have a shared instance or independent instances of ALMA.?
Lois and her work on documentation. How are our procedures in all groups compare and how are they described. Working together in this area might prove informative, but is this still important without integration? Lois is compiling spreadsheet of documents between organizations, comparing naming of and linking to workflows and processes.
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