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Management of Libraries and Information Centres

Notes printed materials. Recommendations for purchases great and small will be submitted to
the VP/AUL routinely. These costs may include datasets, staff, additional space, network-
ing capabilities, and other related items.
Library Committee Liaison The steering committee will endeavor to work closely with the
University Committee on the Library and to serve in a leadership role to help that commit-
tee understand current issues and predicted needs and inform the committee annually of
developments in these areas.
Information Technology The committee will establish close working relationships with
the Rice IT group and integrate its planning and recommendations into the strategic devel-
opment of IT on campus.
Public Relations the committee will serve as a means to make public and promulgate new
digital resources, educational programmes, and services. The committee can also recom-
mend lecturers, lecture series, workshops, and seminars that might be held at Rice to
further the local understanding of these issues as well as to foster the national role Fondren
should begin to take in these areas.

Disaster Recovery Team
Meeting Time: As needed
Purpose: The Team is charged to 1) engage in a periodic review of the existing disaster plan, 2)
recommend a modest budget for disaster recovery supplies, and 3) recommend programs to
heighten staff awareness of disaster recovery routines.

Discovery Tools Group, Ad-hoc
Purpose: The Resource Discovery Tools Working Group has been convened to research, analyze,
and make recommendations about all issues involved in providing that improved access. The
group should study our present local situation, including access to RDSA and relevant Liquid
survey results. The group should also review emerging best practices at other libraries as well as
ongoing research efforts in such organizations as the Library of Congress, ALA, OCLC, the DLF,
and IFLA.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Committee (ETDC)

Purpose: Rice University makes its graduate student theses and dissertations available online
through the Rice Institutional Repository. While many schools have already moved in this direction,
there are very few definitive policies and procedures that clearly guide how this should be done at
each school. Each university has unique needs, requiring the establishment of some local guidelines
for archiving theses and dissertations electronically. The ETDC works closely with the office of
graduate studies, the general counsel’s office, and the academic departments to define guidelines
and address issues for supporting the digital archiving and preservation of Rice theses and
dissertations.

Library Council

Meeting time: First Tuesday of alternating month
Purpose: To discuss operational issues and share information

Library Services Centre Advisory Team

Meeting: biannual (or as needed)
Purpose: This standing group will advise library and Library Service Centre (LSC) management
on issues affecting user services, and stewardship of the Fondren Library collections housed at the
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