<div><div>Good job!</div><div><br/></div><div>Mindy Coslor</div><div>Director of Library Services</div><div>Skagit Valley College</div><div><br/></div><div><font style="color:#333333"><i>Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID</i></font></div></div><br><br>"Luce, Monica" <MLUCE@highline.edu> wrote:<br><br>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>This message has been sent to the CLAMS listserv. Please forward it to any of your staff who might be interested in participating.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Greetings from the LMDC Library Services Platform Working Group – </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Last spring, LMDC voted to move forward with the research and acquisition of a common <SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"><A href="http://hewa.highline.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2012/v24no4/grant/" target=_blank>library services platform</A></SPAN> and charged this group with that task. We are now starting the development of a request for proposals (RFP) and are seeking the input of specialists from within the CTC system. We plan to take advantage of the RFP successfully completed recently by the Orbis-Cascade consortium by using it as a model and fast-tracking our own RFP development. To that end, we are planning a one-day workshop during which we will:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>* hear an overview of the state of contemporary library services systems; <BR>* review LMDC’s objectives; <BR>* edit the operational portions of the Orbis-Cascade document to reflect our needs; and <BR>* edit the system level portions of the document</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Our intended outcome is a working draft of an RFP for a library services platform to be used in common across the CTC system.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>We seek participants who can provide expertise in the following areas (details are below): </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>* systems<BR>* collection management<BR>* description and metadata<BR>* circulation and resource sharing<BR>* discovery and user experience</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>We will limit each group to 8 and prefer that a given library send no more than two people to ensure a diverse representation from across the system. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Here are the meeting details:</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Location: Highline Community College, more details to follow</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Date and time: January 24, 2013, from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Reimbursement: LMDC will subsidize travel as follows, paid to the library: $37.50 per person traveling less than 100 miles; $75 per person traveling more than 100 miles. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>If you are interested in attending please forward your name and primary and secondary areas of expertise (as listed above) to Leslie Potter-Henderson, chair of CLAMS<SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">,</SPAN> at <SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"><A href="mailto:lhenders@shoreline.edu" target=_blank>lhenders@shoreline.edu</A> </SPAN> The committee will select and notify participants. Please be aware that if you are selected you will be provided some materials to study in advance of the meeting.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Respectfully,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>The LMDC Library Services System Working Group</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Andrew Hersh-Tudor</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Monica Luce</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Sharon Winters</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Stan Horton</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Leslie Potter-Henderson</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Mindy Coslor</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Ed Sargent</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Jeanne Leader</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Jennifer Dysart</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Melissa McBurney</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Michelle Bagley</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri><B>Break-out groups to work on functional specifications for RFP</B>:<BR>SYSTEMS (includes sections on reliability, scalability/performance, architecture, data security/access, authentication/authorization/identify mgmt., integration & extensibility, migration, vendor support)<BR><BR>COLLECTION MANAGEMENT (includes sections on collaboration, integration, acquisitions management, serials management, electronic resource management, collection maintenance)<BR><BR>DESCRIPTION & METADATA (includes sections on cataloging, holdings management, authority control, quality control)<BR><BR>CIRCULATION & RESOURCE SHARING (includes sections on borrowing & lending processing including ILL, circulation, statistics & reporting, notifications, circ/ILL integration<BR><BR>DISCOVERY & USER EXPERIENCE: (includes sections on discovery, user/system interaction, interface design/integration, APIs/user-contributed data)</FONT></P>
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