3. Governance Structure: Project
Team
Overall management of MSCS
The famous five: Program Manager, Technology
Director & Project PI’s:
Also Systems Librarian Sara Amato
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4. Governance Structure:
Collection Management
Committee
Representatives from MSCS partners contribute
to:
Data pull
Collections analysis criteria
Retention & potential withdrawals scenarios
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5. Governance Structure:
Technical Services Committee
Representatives from MSCS partners
Contribute to:
OCLC reclamation project
Data pulls #1 & #2
Display of retention commitments in catalogs
Coordinated by MSCS System Librarian
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7. Governance Structure: Advisory
Board
Shared print experts: Bob Kieft, Constance
Malpas & Lizanne Payne
Provide oversight, review, feedback & guidance
on best practice
6 month progress reviews and two in-person
visits
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8. MSCS Program Manager role
Full-time position
IMLS funded for grant period
Duties & responsibilities
Administrative tasks
Financial management
Project documentation
Publicity & promotion
Contribute to nitty gritty work
Importance of project management skills
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10. Barriers to the Decision-making
Process
Delaying Decisions—losing ground between
meetings
Lack of focus—keeping the end result in mind
Some more engaged than others in process
Meeting distractions
Librarians’ love of detail
Technical difficulties getting data
Large and dispersed group
People feeling out-of-the-loop
Lack of information resources
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11. Barriers to the Communications
Process
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12. Third Party Consulting Support
Contract with
Take a step back—justify what we want and why
Data Wrangling—being able to see the data in
useful ways
Focus—working with manageable chunks of the
collection
Trying out Scenarios—seeing actual outcomes of
possible decisions
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13. Trust in one another
History of shared collaboration
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14. Organized meetings
Invite the right people
Clear agendas & supporting documentation
Clear meeting leader
Make decisions
Action points
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