TO: NISO Voting Members (Representatives and Alternates) NISO's Standards Alliance Members Participants in NISO's Metasearch Initiative Metasearch Workshop participants Other interest parties
FROM: Pat Stevens, Chair of the NISO Standards Development Committee DATE: January 16, 2004 On behalf of NISO I am pleased to announce that we have formed the leadership team that will take the NISO Metasearch Initiative forward. Jenny Walker of Ex Libris (USA) Inc. and Andrew Pace of North Carolina State University will jointly lead the overall planning. Because the Metasearch environment involves several interrelated strands, NISO is forming three task groups on the following topics: Access Management, Collection Description, and Search/Retrieve. The leaders of the task groups will work with Jenny and Andrew as the planning body for the overall initiative. The following people have agreed to lead the task groups: *Access Management-Mike Teets, OCLC *Collection Description-Juha Hakala, National Library of Finland *Search/Retrieve-Sara Randall, Endeavor Information Systems and Matt Goldner, Fretwell-Downing Informatics We have placed the initial descriptions of the charges for these groups on the NISO web site <http://www.niso.org/committees/MS-task_groups.html#1> for those of you who are interested in participating. If you'd like to be a part of this effort please sign-on. To join a Task Group send an email message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] indicating your interest. In the subject line state: Metasearch. In the body of the message please tell us about your expertise and interest in the topic and provide your contact points. Thanks to all of you who have expressed an interest in participating. Many of you responded to the last notice. We would appreciate your confirming that you remain interested. I know that I can count on all of you to provide the support necessary to move this important work forward. Pat Stevens Chair of the NISO Standards Development Committee __________________________________________________ -- Pat Stevens Director, Cooperative Initiatives OCLC Chair, NISO Standards Development Committee Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 614-764-6406 ** Mobile: 240-432-8531 ** Fax: 614-764-1640 ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
