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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. Our collaboration on 2CUL 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.
- With the appointment of the Ivy Plus Technical Services Group (in which Mark is representing Columbia and Xin Li is representing Cornell), we talked about the increasing proliferation of collaborative groups, chiefly associated with Ivy Plus.