Bonnie McNeely, Chair, Virginia Andrews, Nancy Bierschenk, Roberta Pitts, Ellen Safley, Steve Stoan, Rajia Tobia, Karen Wielhorski, Paul Dumont, Anne Highsmith, and Mary Lou Goodyear. Mary Lou Goodyear, Co-Principal Investigator for TexShare gave an introduction for the Working Group. The Working Group's mission is to recommend to the TexShare Management Team and the TexShare Advisory Board the type of service which should be provided to the TexShare libraries under the commercial indexing service part of the project. In addition, the Working Group should recommend a charging scheme to be used to distribute TexShare funds and to charge the libraries for the service. The following parameters should be taken into account.
TexShare project is funded by state funds.
Therefore, service contracts will be written after a competitive bid process. The libraries who receive the service must pay one-forth of the cost of the service. Funds must be expended by August 31, 1995. In order to assist the Working Group with its deliberations, a Request for Information was sent to several vendors. The responses to this request was sent to the Working Group members before the meeting.