Notes from monthly TSI JSMIN meeting, Oct. 20, 2015
Attending: Adam Chandler, Sarah Elman, Kate Harcourt, Jesse Koennecke, Jim LeBlanc, Colleen Major, Joyce McDonough, Chew Chiat Naun, Robert Rendall, Mark Wilson
- Tentative travel plans for remainder of grant period. A F2F meeting at Columbia regarding Korean processing is still in the works for sometime during the next few weeks. The E-Resources Team may also be planning to meet (Jesse and Joyce will discuss this in their next TSI call). The proposed Non-MARC Metadata Team and LD4P meetings are not likely to occur before the end of the calendar year. If there is grant money remaining for this trip, we will inquire with Mellon (and with our own finance offices) whether we can defer this spending until 2016. If the Mellon money is not available, we will need to request local funding for this meeting.
- Outstanding deliverables for Mellon. We talked about a number of activities that we're going to need to wrap up by the end of 2015 --
- Formation of a "formal alliance of technical services operations" – Kate and Jim will draft an outline of the mainstreaming plan, based on our discussion of this issue in the August JSMIN meeting
- Assessment of "qualitative improvements in service and support for the collections, as well as savings and cost avoidance ... at the conclusion of the project" – Jesse and Joyce will continue to work with Kizer and Jeff to determine or estimate the extent of savings generated by joint 2CUL acquisitions and licensing negotiations;