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 Both Columbia and Cornell keep careful documentation of their practices and workflows.  Columbia maintains their documentation on a Wiki and Cornell maintains theirs on the department website.  Both institutions keep their Each institution keeps its documentation and procedures up-to-date and available for the Ordering staff in the respective institutions.  After team 2CUL Monograph Ordering Team members were appointed, they shared procedures and documents as they prepared to meet in person to examine more closely, how the function of ordering is handled in each place.

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The four Monograph Ordering team Team members met at Columbia in late February and spent several very productive hours reviewing the workflows and customs for the basic ordering practices for each institution.  The inventory of Columbia's routines is at InventoryofpoliciesCOL and Cornell's similar document is at InventoryPracticesPoliciesCOR.docx.  Both institutions

Identifying dependencies and limitations inherent in working with other functional areas in Columbia and Cornell technical services, as well as with other divisions (e.g. collection development, IT) at the two institutions;

When the team Monograph Ordering Team met in February, we examined processes at both CULs and created a document which outlines what we see as the problem areas, to provide quick and effective response to e-resource access problems.  Our which processes at each CUL will limit ordering staff being able to share processes.  Though our user populations and our collections share many similarities, but   there are also limitations at each place, some of which might be able to be eventually handled by the other institution.  Our identification document The document which identifies the similarities and differences is at Similarities & Differences - Final.

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