I. Operating Principles for Technical Services Integration (forthcoming)
II. Operating Principles for the 2CUL Environment with a Shared LMS
- Shape current and future environments in support of a 2CUL technical services environment that fosters innovation, creativity, collaboration, collegiality and professionalism.
- Trust each other's judgment, training, and skills. Be willing to try out new approaches while being mindful of political realities.
- Increase efficiency through the elimination of redundancy and manual keying. Use gains to implement new and deferred initiatives.
- Converse, work, plan and train in unison making communication harmonic, obstacle-free, and transparent.
- Assess all projects and committee outcomes against TSI principles and the TSI charge with the future good of 2CUL paramount.
- Be mindful of special materials, formats, and all areas and components of technical services in workflow review and integration, e.g. rare books, non-print, CJKT at Columbia, Law at Cornell.
- A single, but mixed operating environment: Columbia, Cornell, 2CUL
- The shared system will also be used by affiliate libraries that are not part of 2CUL
- Some selectors will have collection development responsibilities for both institutions
- For most acquisitions, Columbia and Cornell will use same vendors, but there will be some exceptions
- Licenses for e-resources will be coordinated, but not always identical
- 2CUL will not be a separate business entity and will thus require separate fund structures, accounts payable, and general ledger systems
- A single 2CUL "library zone" with shared bibliographic records for resources owned or licensed by both institutions; approaches to counting who owns what will vary
- Physical materials will be assigned a single Columbia or Cornell location, but co-licensed e-resources will be managed through a single 2CUL location
- Borrowing privileges will be determined by the owning library, but will be the same for both Columbia and Cornell patrons
- Columbia and Cornell will continue to operate separate remote storage facilities, with separate inventory control systems