In a sense, the market conspired with us to insure a readily defensible link between these two disciplianry specializations. Studies and U.S. History bibliographers could work together most profitably. As one of our first exercises, we created statements of purpose and goals. The process of drafting goals statements afforded us an opportunity to turn something that, until this point, had seemed like a good idea, although no one knew exactly why, into something concrete. The two goals statements are nearly identical.
Studies adds an additional item to a list of seven common to both.
To develop formal collaborative collection development agreements based on programmatic needs and strengths of individual campuses. To coordinate projects and make policy recommendations on issues related to serial selections, cancellations, and access 4. To coordinate the acquisition and location of major microform sets 5. Once we got all of this down on paper, reviewed, revised, reviewed and revised again, it was time to put word into deed and begin to act on some of the fine ideals articulated in our goals statement. To illustrate our process of turning word into deed, let me describe briefly two of our initial projects.