Working Groups for Project Implementation Target Occupancy Date: June 1998 Project Coordinator: Danuta Nitecki Project Support: Gloria Huckaby Project Coordination: Monitor schedule to ensure that the facility opens in June1998 Establish and monitor budget Address issues of overlapping interest Resolve any conflicting demands on the project Maintain regular staff updates of progress Prepare reader guides to services and any on-line and other forms needed for new services Provide updates for faculty and other appropriate groups Working Groups FACILITY Leaders: Danuta Nitecki & Richard Vollaro Members: Paul Conway, Tom Schneiter, John Vincenti This group will advise on the library interests relating to the following tasks which will be undertaken by campus planning and facilities: Identify, select and acquire site Work closely with facilities staff, design consultants, architects, and library staff to translate program needs to architectural plans Prepare site and construct facility COLLECTION SELECTION Leader: Margaret Powell Members: Paul Conway, Max Marmor (ex officio), Ann Okerson, Tom Schneiter, Paul Stuehrenberg Establish selection policies Establish selection procedures that accommodate reader input Identify, select and review items for transfer PROCESSING Leader: Mary LaFogg Members: Steven Arakawa, Briant Bohleke, Paul Conway, Sue Crockford-Peters, Carol Jones, Andrea Lamb Establish mechanisms for preservation handling/treatment of materials to be transferred Assure bibliographic controls/records exist for all items transferred; coordinate filling of new facility with retrospective conversion Design transfer procedures for existing and newly acquired materials Establish and meet schedule for moving materials Review/obtain/install management software system (shared responsibility with Services Group) SERVICES Leader: Chris de Vallet Members: Susan Burdick, Marlayna Gates, Gail Harris, Mary LaFogg, Audrey Novak, Anthony Riccio 1. Service Model Identify long-term opportunities to rationalize the location of on-campus materials so as to maximize the value to readers of "browsable" shelving Design delivery services with regard to other existing and potential delivery services (e.g. Eli Express, CoPY, ILL, etc.) Design reader services that maximize the value of the new shelving facility 2. Service Operations Establish procedures for retrieval and delivery; establish and meet service standards Review/obtain/install management software system [shared responsibility with Processing Group Acquire truck and other transport equipment and supplies Identify personnel requirements Recruit and train staff LOCATOR SOFTWARE (an ad hoc group formed 04/97) Members: Sue Crockford-Peters, Steven Arakawa, Joel Felber, Kim Raseman, Brian Kupiec Identify functionality needed for managing the location, retrieval, and use of materials and space Identify what software exists and is available from related applications Review options and recommend solution to meet time and resources available Test acquired solution 27 January 1998 LSF HOME PAGE Yale University Library Copyright Last modified: 16 November 1999 Comments: danuta.nitecki@yale.edu This file is located at http://www.library.yale.edu/lsf/historical3.html