lib-ir: possible communities for SB

[Barbara Jenkins <jenkins@uoregon.edu>]

I think we need to think broadly about the academic purpose of the IR and
also be flexible to take advantage of opportunities.  Barb

At 06:28 AM 1/5/2005, you wrote:
> Two communities being proposed
> by Admin:
>
> 1) Andrew Bonamici has had discussions with Chris
> Ramey from University Planning about the possibility
> of setting up a collection for the UO Planning
> Office for major documents such as the Long Range
> Plan. (This discussion got started because
> Chris was excited to find one of the PPPM
> terminal projects in SB.)
>
> 2) Mark Watson has had some discussions with
> Paul Slovic of Decision Research
> http://www.decisionresearch.org/About/
> about including their working papers and
> reports in SB. They do research into
> questions about human judgment, information
> processing, and risk perception. Many of the
> people affiliated with Decision Research
> are UO faculty; others are not. Mark and I
> are meeting with Paul soon to discuss this
> further.
>
> As we've moved forward with SB, our vision
> for it has evolved. Initially, we were looking
> at it as an archive for UO faculty research.
> Then we expanded it to UO research, from
> faculty,staff. or students. Then we expanded it
> also to include materials that support the
> academic mission of the University, such
> as some materials from University Archives
> and Special Collections. Both of the above
> proposals could be construed to fit into
> our wider vision for SB. I'm game to
> at least consider them. It seems to me
> that if we find a market for this service,
> even if it's not the one we originally
> envisioned, we should explore it.
>
> What do the rest of you think?
>
> Carol

Barbara Jenkins 
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