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- The 2CUL Technical Services Alliance continues to function with its "lightweight administrative structure," which seems just about right for our purposes. Apart from our joint engagement with e-resource suppliers, our role seems to have evolved into a kind of caucus in regard to broader-based collaborations. Jesse reported on the MIT/CUL ("Mighty Cool") initiative that is underway as an example of this role, with Columbia and Cornell working together to review MIT's draft e-resource licensing principles prior to collaborating more directly on e-resource issues. Another example is 2CUL TSI as a core factor in Our collaboration on TSI can also be seen as a driver behind the formation of the fledgling technical services advisory team (with reps from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale) to investigate OCLC's implementation of FAST headings.
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