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We began talking about a possible face-to-face JSMIN meeting in summer or fall of this year, though it will be important for this agenda to be driven by concrete goals that support "better overall quality, productivity, improvement of services, and/or fruitful innovation" – as per the charge for the Alliance. The idea arose that whatever funding is available might be better spent in support of functional area activity – for instance, a non-MARC metadata meeting in conjunction with the Code4Lib Unconference that Cornell plans to host in early August, an e-resource assessment summit, or a more broadly collaborative linked data meeting at a third-party location (e.g. Harvard).
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