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Establishment of Technical Services Redesign Implementation Team
STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
MEMORANDUM
Date: 16 May 1995
To: SUL/AIR Staff, Coordinate Libraries, C-Lib, SUL/AIR
Advisory Council
From: Mike Keller, University Librarian and Director of
Academic Information Resources
Re: Establishment of Technical Services Redesign
Implementation Team
The SUL/AIR directors met to consider the
comments and concerns which arose from elements
of the Redesign Report during the course of the
SUL/AIR community discussion. There is
considerable satisfaction among us about the
quantity and quality of valuable advice and
comments from the entire staff during that
process. Among the directors there is
enthusiastic agreement that the unit heads
managed discussion of the issues exceedingly well
and that the resulting feedback was perceptive,
valid, and quite useful.
At the conclusion of their deliberations, the directors accepted the recommendations
of the report with one change to the wording of
Process Change 8 to allow more flexibility during implementation
planning. Here is the new wording:
Process Change 8: Eliminate redundant
functions between central Technical Services and
the Service Units for serials check-in.
I have asked the following SUL/AIR librarians
to join the Technical Services Redesign
Implementation Team:
- Catherine Tierney, Chair
- Jerry Persons, co-chair
- Steve Gass
- Karen Kalinsky
- Joan Krasner
- Roberto Trujillo
I am grateful to Catherine, Jerry, Steve,
Karen, Joan, and Roberto for undertaking this
long-term and significant assignment.
The Team is charged with the following
responsibilities:
- to develop, articulate, and follow through
on the strategies for implementing all aspects
of the Technical Services Redesign;
- to test and refine emerging strategies and
implementation plans using feedback from the
Staff Advisory Group, SUL/AIR senior staff, and
the Asilomar group;
- to establish and charge task forces to
accomplish clusters of tasks included in the
redesign strategy; to monitor the activities of
the task forces, and to coordinate activities
among them;
- to coordinate elements of the TS Redesign
with other SUL/AIR projects (e.g., ILS testing
and implementation, facilities projects), with
other SUL/AIR redesign teams, with the
Coordinate Libraries, with ITSS, and with other
University offices;
- to report and communicate regularly with
SUL/AIR senior staff, Asilomar Group, and other
standing groups.
The Team will be the generative group for the
implementation of the Redesign recommendations
and indeed may generate some new notions for
process and flow as we learn more. Their term is
not fixed, but will end with the successful
implementation of the Redesign elements. I am
requesting particular and early attention to
revising our relationships with booksellers in
the languages and from the regions where I
believe significant gains are possible in
discounts as well as in services provided to
Stanford.
The Technical Services Redesign Implementation
Team will continue to draw upon the members of
the Redesign Team and upon the Asilomar Group for
ideas and response to notions. We will establish
a Staff Advisory Group to provide a strong link
to the SUL Staff Community; that group too will
be asked to advise and comment upon the work of
the Technical Services Redesign Implementation
Team.
A
schematic showing the functional relationships of the TSRI Team
(pronounced tizree team) is available through the Redesign home
page.
There has been terrific synergy on the issues
of Redesign of Technical Services, on replacing
NOTIS, and on the program for a new technical
services building. These strong efforts in
conjunction with all the other programs and
projects we are conducting are the cause of much
admiration for Stanford and for SUL/AIR. In
realizing our goals and aspirations, we are
producing a vigorous, multi-faceted information
and knowledge resource for our readers. I am
proud, as I hope you all are, to be associated
with such efforts and such a community as
this.
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