Hi everyone:
Here's Here’s the latest on what's what’s been happening with 2CUL Technical Services Integration (TSI). This report, along with past updates, is also available in the Project Reports section of the TSI wiki.
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3. TSI had a phone conference with MIT about their reorganization which was largely based on a change from an organization based on function to one based on workflow. As we've we’ve been discovering, technical services mergers and reorganizations seem to all be idiosyncratic to the institution(s). In MIT's MIT’s case, they have deprioritized the processing of physical material in order to give greater focus to electronic and digital assets. They also aimed to reduce workflow handoffs, and staff assignments are now more specialized than they've they’ve been in the past.
4. The TSI Administrative Team is considering various ways of assessing attitudes toward 2CUL, including the possibility of a staff survey sometime this fall. Colleen Major and Boaz Nadav-Manes will be working with Nisa Bakkalbasi (Columbia) and Zuszsa Koltay (Cornell) on this aspect of TSI.
5. Alena Ptak-Danchak, who was the Director of the Columbia Health Sciences Library, was in town this summer and was interested in 2CUL. She prepared a report with her observations.
That's That’s all for this time. Stay tuned for more information about Phase 2. As always, please feel free to direct questions to your supervisors or to any member of the TSI Steering Committee: Jim LeBlanc, Adam Chandler, Colleen Major, Boaz Nadav-Manes, Robert Rendall, or me.
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