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Explore the benefits of merging academic libraries and IT organizations, effective organization strategies, collaboration opportunities for diverse skills, funding essential services, and fostering understanding and empathy between library and IT staff. Join the discussion on archiving research data and collective exploration.
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ORGANIZATION ISSUES • Academic Libraries and IT organizations should merge; they shouldn’t/can’t be one organization • How are you all organized? Anyone here with merged organizations? What are the positives/negatives of how you are doing things?
COLLABORATION OPPORTUNTIIES • How can we bring our diverse skills to collaborative projects? • How can we get library and IT staff to understand better and empathize more with the idiosyncratic needs and workflows of our communities? And vice versa. • What can federating mean for our communities? • How could we be working together on archiving research data? • What could we/should we collectively be exploring?
FUNDING ISSUES • If we have created essential services that are not “owned” by any particular group, how do we manage the service? • How do we fund the service?