2CUL TSI Administrative Team Meeting -- March 12, 2013

Attending: Jim Cheng, Kate Harcourt, Jim LeBlanc, Xin Li, Bob Wolven, Liren Zheng

The agenda for this meeting focused on the team's charge, particularly in regard to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan (CJKT) issues.  A few points:

• We've already been working on some CJKT administrative issues in ad hoc groups: the new Chinese approval plans, the review of expectations for our 2CUL Korean cataloging agreement, and potential 2CUL aspects of the job Cornell is posting for a CJK copy cataloger.  We agreed that this work, and similar issues in the future, would be fall under the umbrella of the TSI Administrative Team.
• We also agreed that it would be useful for Jim Cheng, Liren, and others to provide the team with information regarding programmatic changes in East Asian studies at Columbia and Cornell -- for instance, the hiring of new faculty.
• Other issues of interest to the group:
  • Columbia is applying for a CLIR grant to catalog its "hidden/backlog" Japanese Makino Collection
  • We intend to explore the possibility of batch processing support for the import, export, and maintenance of CJKT records
  • Joint review of the outsourcing landscape for CJKT cataloging.
• Jim and Kate will discuss the idea of a CJKT representative on the TSI Batch Processing Working Group with TSI Steering and the working group's leads.