The groups are physically integrated. There is a more gender-balanced group of information providers with mutual respect for each other's disciplines. The staff has a sense of challenge to make the integration happen. Flexible work plans for staff and a digitization fund in RIMS to feed their Website now exist. Interest and excitement abound as staff apply the latest technologies, not only to map the organization's information sources, but also to improve the processes used by individual staff members to create and handle information and workflow.
Many challenges lie ahead.
The group must continue to be creative and open to ideas and keep abreast of new technologies. RIMS must be a meaningful descriptor of its services and increase cost-recovery opportunities. If the EDMS pilot is successful, the biggest challenge will be to redesign all the processes of locating, describing, filing, disseminating, and archiving information and to train the staff to be self-sufficient wherever they are and with whomever they are working. Following article Council of Federal Libraries.