UC Libraries
NGTS Update: May 2012
Power of Three (POT) Groups Update
Power of Three group activities are being reported as they align with
the strategic goals of NGTS:
Cooperative Collection Development
POT 7 has been working on recommendations to manage and communicate all
of the existing cooperative collection development activities within UC.
The group is drafting charges for lightning teams to work on the
evolving role of the "bibliographer," "subject selector," or "curator."
Collaborative Collection Services
POT 2 is continuing work on a tentative shelf ready plan. The team has
selected promising shelf-ready vendors and is defining criteria for
evaluating vendors.
POT 3 has documented principles and approaches for "More Product, Less
Process" (MPLP) in development of a manual for efficient processing of
archival collections. POT 3 is also documenting best practices from UC
case studies and defining MPLP baselines for all collection types. The
group has charged a lightning team
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to identify a methodology for capturing processing rates and assessing
processing benchmarks.
POT 5 submitted its final recommendation regarding Shared Cataloging
Program record distribution to the Management Team. The Management Team
reviewed the report with the POT members and has forwarded it to the
Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG)
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for consideration.
Three lightning teams working under POT 6 have completed their
information gathering on current and projected campus staffing needs;
existing and needed tools that support collection services operations;
and existing backlogs, including special collections. The POT is
identifying potential pilot projects based on the information gathered
and on existing or recent collection service arrangements.
Collaborative Digital Initiatives
POT 1 currently has seven lightning teams up and running. The teams are
working on development of requirements and technical models for a
system-wide Digital Assets Management System (DAMS) along with discovery
and delivery functions; criteria and guidelines for collections to be
included in the UC Digital Collection; identification of existing
digital collections to be included; identification of mechanisms for
continual discovery of digital collections; a gap analysis of the
Merritt repository service
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and a rights management framework.
Financial and Technical Infrastructure to Support Collaboration
POT 4 reviewed its interim report with the NGTS Management Team. The
group made the recommendation that CDL Acquisitions provide monthly
reporting to allow campuses to track local expenditures predictably. It
has also recommended that the campuses continue to use the recharge
system as the method of co-investment. POT 4 plans to conduct a
follow-up survey on the new deposit account system after all campuses
have used the system for a full fiscal year. After further study on the
establishment of a secure website for tracking recharge activities in
real time, the POT found that the additional investment of effort to
create and maintain such a site would not yield significant benefit, and
that consistent monthly reporting from CDL Acquisitions appears to meet
campus library needs.
SOPAG has accepted the recommendations from POT 4 and has submitted the
recommendation not to pursue creation of the secure website to the
Council of University Librarians for consent.
POT 4 has also developed Financial Data Best Practices to guide
communication between library accounting staff and campus financial
staff regarding the recharge process for CDL co-investments.These will
be circulated among the campus library accounting officers for review.
Transformation and Quick Wins, Revisited
Martha Hruska and Emily Lin presented an update on NGTS to the
Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) Spring
2012 Assembly held at the UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension in
Santa Clara. The theme of the assembly was "Next-Generation
Librarianship," and clearly the NGTS initiative is helping to frame
thinking and discussion. Among the questions raised was what outcomes
would be "transformational" and what "quick wins" have been attained
thus far. Read more
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NGTS Communications
Keep up-to-date on developments and ideas posted on the NGTS
blog
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Do you have questions or feedback about NGTS?
Feel free to e-mail Emily Lin, NGTS Communications Manager, at
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]?subject=NGTS%20feedback>.
You can also post your feedback on Twitter with #ucngts or submit a
question on the blog
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anonymously. All feedback will be reviewed and responded to by the NGTS
Management Team.
