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Attending: Sarah Elman, Kate Harcourt, Jesse Koennecke, Jim LeBlanc, Joyce McDonough, Chew Chiat Naun, Mark Wilson
Announcements:
- With the conclusion of the TSI project, Colleen Major and Robert Rendall (members of the original 2CUL TSI Steering Committee), are no longer serving on JSMIN.
- Cornell has postponed the target date for its OLE implementation from summer 2017 to summer 2018.
We identified the "discrete projects and initiatives of mutual strategic interest" in which we are currently engaged under the banner of the 2CUL Technical Services Strategic Alliance:
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We spoke about ways to "preserve, promote, and invoke the 2CUL brand in broader collaborative forums" in support of the charge for the Alliance. Ideas includedinclude: continuing to negotiate licenses as 2CUL whenever possible and appropriate, emphasizing the Columbia/Cornell collaboration within the LD4P project, and presenting together at ALA whenever possible and appropriate.
We began talking about a possible face-to-face JSMIN meeting in summer or fall of this year, though it will be important for this agenda to be driven by concrete goals that support "better overall quality, productivity, improvement of services, and/or fruitful innovation" – as per the charge for the Alliance. The idea arose that whatever funding is available might be better spent in support of functional area activity.
will be important to prepare an agenda that is clearly worth the cost if we do so. We might also consider a joint presentation as part of such an agenda. On the other hand, it might be more useful to fund a working group meeting with more