Notes from 2CUL JSMIN meeting, December 8, 2016
Attending: Sarah Elman, Adam Chandler, Jesse Koennecke, Jim LeBlanc, Chew Chiat Naun, Mark Wilson
Housekeeping:
- Jeff Carroll, who now oversees E-Resources Management as well as Collection Development at Columbia, will be replacing Joyce McDonough on JSMIN
- We will continue to meet quarterly via WebEx in 2017, 3:00-4:00 on third Thursdays
Taking stock:
- The 2CUL Technical Services Alliance continues to function with its "lightweight administrative structure," which seems just about right for our purposes. Apart from our joint engagement with e-resource suppliers, our role seems to have evolved into a kind of caucus in regard to broader-based collaborations. Jesse reported on the MIT/CUL ("Mighty Cool") initiative that is underway as an example of this role, with Columbia and Cornell working together to review MIT's draft e-resource licensing principles prior to collaborating more directly on e-resource issues. Another example is 2CUL TSI as a core factor in the formation of the fledgling technical services advisory team (with reps from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale) to investigate OCLC's implementation of FAST headings.