Operating Principles for Technical Services Integration
- 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.