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Topic: the eight-point plan for a change of direction in TSI: see the “Action Plan and Rationale” in the brief document From Integration to the 2CUL Technical Services Initiative
We addressed the questions below.
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- Functional working groups should continue to pursue ongoing work and new ideas that are likely to yield mutual (or net) benefits for our libraries. Working groups should feel free to combine personnel, as needed or desired and as situations require, though formal restructuring of the groups at this time would be premature. Better to let the continuing TSI work drive changes in the model, rather than vice versa.
- Clearly we need a strong voice in system selection, migration, and implementation, especially since for many working groups TSI is dependent on whether or not we implement a shared system and what kind of shared functionality that system will provide (or inhibit).
- Kate and I will work on updating the top pages of the TSI wiki to account for the recent “pivot,” recommending changes to the individual pages and making those changes on behalf of the teams, if requested. Beyond that, we recommend that the working groups continue to use their wiki pages as they see fit.
- We ask everyone in JSMIN to take responsibility for pushing Technical Services Initiative work forward, as time and resources permit.
- Kate and I will begin work on step #5 in the action plan, initially with a pilot project in consultation with a single working group. More on this soon. Since it is Kate and I who have made (or who have had made for us) the formal 35% time commitment to TSI thru 2015, we will continue to shoulder the largest portion of this research burden, though we will probably need to pull others into the effort at some point.
- Kate and I will also begin work on step #6 in the action plan, initially nitially by following up with our KenDen and BookOps contacts.