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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 evolution of the 2CUL mindset, 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 proposal for an informal technical services advisory team (with reps from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale) to investigate OCLC's implementation of FAST headings. Four veterans of 2CUL have been nominated for the five-person team.
- 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. We agreed that we should lobby for clarity in the focus and goals of these groups and stress the importance of useful, actionable outcomes.
- Naun reported briefly on the PCC Policy Committee (PoCo) Meeting that he and Kate attended in early November. Specifically, Naun summarized noted that PoCo accepted the proposal for a joint PCCC PCC umbrella membership in ISNI that would allow distributed access to the ISNI production system for PCC membersand plans to set up a subgroup of PoCo members to explore next steps.