Hi all,
For today, let's let’s spend our time on:
- Changes to TSI focus – Below is a message that Jim LeBlanc sent to one of the other TSI working groups to explain changes in the focus of TSI. The specifics relating to their team can be ignored, but the points listed and general gist of the message apply to TSI as a whole. We should discuss how this might affect our work short and long term.
- For discussion on Monday
- NERL resources/licenses, is there a role for the e-journal preservation person or project ?
- Contacts in CE (all or NERL, or none?) - in all cases we need labeling to make relationships clear.
- For discussion on Monday
- RM Implementation Updates
- Other topics
Talk to you later.
Jesse
As you know, we've we’ve been struggling with the idea of technical services "integration" “integration” for several months now, ever since we confirmed that neither Columbia nor Cornell staff may in any way, at any level, supervise staff at the partner library. We have even struggled to get a clear picture of what exactly we mean by "supervision“supervision." ” In short, the project as originally conceived now seems impossible.
For this reason, the JSMIN group, along with Xin and Bob, have proposed changes to the TSI vision. I'm I’m writing as your liaison from JSMIN to the TSI Monograph Receiving Working Group to alert you to these changes. They still require approval from the 2CUL Steering Committee – in particular from Anne Kenney and Jim Neal – since there's there’s a significant amount of Mellon money involved in supporting the project. Nonetheless, we feel we absolutely must move forward towards a different horizon, if we don't don’t want to squander the excellent work we've we’ve all done so far in preparing the ground for useful collaboration between our two outstanding technical services divisions.
Here's what we've Here’s what we’ve proposed. Please bear in mind that this plan is still tentative, but do feel free to share it discreetly with others (like Pedro Arroyo) whom you've you’ve been working with. There will be a public announcement after the plan clears 2CUL Steering, but (as we've we’ve learned from recent experience), that could take a while.
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We will be talking about this change of direction more fully at the next Working Group Leads meeting on July 15th. In the meantime, please let me know if you have any questions about all this, or feel free to talk to your supervisors (who were both part of the conversation within JSMIN). I'm I’m going to away from the office June 12-30, but will be reading and responding to email intermittently during that time.