Striedieck, 'Council on Library Resources Symposium:  Results and Plans', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v18n05 (August 1991)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 18 no. 5
August 1991
Striedieck, Suzanne
"Council on Library Resources Symposium:  Results and Plans"


Eighty faculty, administrators, and librarians attending the 
symposium "Cooperative Information Resources Development 
in the Sciences and Engineering," held May 28 and 29, 1991, 
brought a wealth of ideas, experience, and energy to the 
meeting.  Out of the discussions that capped the symposium, a 
ranked list of twenty-eight issues and research or action 
items emerged.  The symposium's organizing committee is 
evaluating the list and formulating the research agenda for the 
next phase of the project supported by the $100,000 grant 
awarded to NCSU, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke by the Council on 
Library Resources.  This research phase, beginning in the fall, 
will involve graduate assistants hired under the grant, as well 
as issue-based task forces made up of faculty, administrators, 
and librarians from the three institutions.  Another symposium 
later in the two-year project will help evaluate the research 
results and move the Triangle universities toward 
interinstitutional agreements to support collaborative 
development and sharing of scientific information resources.

The three other institutions awarded grants under the Council 
on Library Resources' program "Setting Library Policies and 
Priorities in Research Universities" included Columbia and 
Harvard universities and a consortium of SUNY campuses 
(Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Stony Brook).  
Representatives from all the projects met in June 1991 at the 
American Library Association conference to exchange plans 
and progress.  Suzanne Striedieck (ext. 5-2843) and John 
Abbott (ext. 5-3833) represent NCSU on the Triangle's 
steering committee and would be pleased to discuss or share 
information about the projects.