One portion of the workshop today included a categorization of course library processes and related sub-processes. The following processes were gathered from some small group work & grouped and categorized during the morning session. The key areas were:
Acquire/license
select, identify for acquisition, import data, manage funds, order, track, interoperate with external systems, interact with external purchasing systems, audit, license, account/weed/deacquire
Metadata services
Create, obtain, enhance, ingest, maintain, normalize, license, share, manage relationships (with internal/external systems)
Inventory
Weeding, Prepare item for shelf, identify/manage location, confirm availability, audit trail for services, access/rights management, consortial issues
Borrowing
Policy applicaiton, user authentication, resource identification, fulfilment services, notification services, ILL, Delivery, Proxy (patron, access)
Discovery
Browse, search, display, help, resource integration (multi-format), resource enhancement (external metadata), gather user input/feedback, user-type specific features, manipulate data, export data, import data
Reporting
Export data, provide views, data warehousing, automation/scheduling, customization, export/migration
Preservation
Version tracking, archiving, (ran out of time)
Overarching trends
Increase in electronic, importance of user authentication service, importance of enabling relationships between systems, variety of disovery services, ability to recombine/remix, better access to data, more connections/collaboration between data/users/institutions/libraries, need to push data to external systems, ability to represent/apply license terms, increase in serialization of resources, increase in interoperability/collaboration needs, debate between federation (local indexing - just in case), and meta-search ( distributed indexing - just in time).