EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and IT-Library Mergers

Library/IT Partnerships

drupal — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:56:42 -0500

This meeting will provide a forum for discussing management issues unique to the collaborative efforts now required of librarians and IT managers. It will offer an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas regarding potential partnerships such as training, working with information providers, delivering services, and supporting instructional technology, multimedia, and campus-wide information systems.

Measuring the Soup: The MISO Survey

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:46 -0500

Join the Merged Information Services Organizations (MISO) Survey Team to discuss results, trends, and best practices that emerged from the 2006 survey of 19 liberal arts colleges and universities. This quantitative survey measures the use and effectiveness of the services and resources of merged library and computing organizations.

Libraries and IT Together: What's in It for Us?

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:34 -0600

The University of Kansas brings libraries and IT together as Information Services (IS). We will offer practical advice on mergers gleaned from recent reorganization experiences and discuss benefits accrued for the organization, staff, and university as newly formed working groups support critical constituencies.

Developing a Collaborative Organization

drupal — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:08:44 -0500

Bucknell's merged IT/Library organization has defined an organizational culture called our "Collaborative Work Environment." Through an internal Organizational Development Team and specific professional development activities, we have defined our way of working together based on shared values, optimistic thinking, celebration, shared leadership, and our refusal to let each other fail.

The Full Monty: Two Mutually Incompatible Views of Organizational Convergence

drupal — Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:56:29 -0500

At Sheffield, the Library and Computing Service formed a new Division of Information Services in 1999. Concurrently, the two services achieved breakthroughs in formulating corporate information strategy and planning new learning space. Featuring extensive personal abuse and recrimination, two senior managers will in this session extract general truths from their experience of organizational convergence.