RE: lib-ir: AAA terminal projects

[Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>]

I would say, follow up, as long as it's clear that
you're only exploring possibilities.

Carol

At 11:29 AM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>I have talked with Tom about the PPPM Exit projects and he tells me that
>only a few projects are coming in electronic form (CD-Rom), with most still
>being produced in print. Of course these days, if they have a print copy,
>they should have an electronic copy in at least a Word format. Given the
>growing use of GIS and image anaylsis in planning projects, I believe PPPM
>would welcome an electronic archive for their projects.
>
>Tom also suggested using one of the PPPM affliated groups as a possible
>pilot for the IR.
>
>These are listed at:
>http://utopia.uoregon.edu/dep/research.html
>
>One group from the list which seems promising is the Community Planning
>Workshop. They are producing some interesting project documents.
>http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~cpw/
>
>If there are no objections, I was going to go ahead and follow up on some
>contacts with PPPM.
>
>Andrew
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-lib-ir@lists.uoregon.edu
>[mailto:owner-lib-ir@lists.uoregon.edu]On Behalf Of Carol Hixson
>Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:07 AM
>To: lib-ir@lists.uoregon.edu
>Subject: lib-ir: AAA terminal projects
>
>
>I don't remember being cc'd _recently_ on this, but here
>are my thoughts:
>
>I don't think these are the same as theses and dissertations
>and they have never been treated that way before. If AAA
>is too problematic for this to go forward right now, I would
>recommend that we focus on the PPPM terminal projects.
>This may also be too complicated for an email discussion.
>
>Carol
>
>
>At 10:39 AM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Here is a question that I was going to bring up today at our meeting, but
> >will mention here. In your discussions with Ed Teague and others at AAA
> >regarding the terminal projects - what answers did you receive? I've been
> >part of e-mail discussions with Ed Teague and others (Carol I think you
> >were cc:'d on a message or two) on this topic. We've been looking at this
> >from the Thesis/Dissertation end - e.g. are terminal projects the
> >equivalents of theses and dissertations when done for a graduate degree,
> >and therefore are they a permanent record of the University. Currently I
> >don't think we have an answer to that question, we were looking to meet on
> >this topic sometime this spring. Thus, I'm interested to see how this
> >discussion fits with the role of the IR (maybe it's inconsequential), and
> >to find out if there is updated information that I don't have.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Heather
> >
> >At 09:45 AM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >>Carol and I touched base this morning, and decided that having an IRG
> >>meeting this week probably wouldn't be very useful.  So we propose to
>cancel
> >>today's meeting and meet again at our next regularly scheduled time.
>We'll
> >>send you all some specific small tasks to accomplish before that meeting.
> >>
> >>The major progress we've made since our last meeting has been that Carol
>met
> >>with Deb to discuss IR projects.  Deb does want us to pursue a couple of
> >>"low hanging fruit" pilot projects, and likes the idea of one project
> >>targeted at students and one targeted at faculty.  Carol will brief you
> >>further by email.
> >>
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