Cover Story
SUNY Prepares for ALEPH

Features
Strategic Automation Consultation

SUNYConnect Means Databases

In Her Own Words
Mary Alice Lynch, Executive Director, Nylink

A Day in a LIfe at the OLIS

How to Contact Us

Linkable Links

Erratum

Link to the OLIS Committees List

The SUNYConnect Advisory Council is the designated group responsible for SUNY-wide library automation decisions. S.A.C.'s precursor was the Library Automation Steering Group. LASG, likewise had purview over SUNY-wide library automation issues. A relatively common misconception seems to be that LASG (and by extension S.A.C.) only focused on the Library Automation Implementation Program and LAIP's 40 SUNY libraries. That was never the case.

S.A.C. includes members from around the SUNY library world as well as representatives from the Academic Officers', Computer Officers', Telecommunication Officers' and Business Officers' associations and System Administration. The Chair of the group is Dan Schabert, Director of the Library and Learning Resources, at the SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome. Other members of S.A.C. are

 

Laura Cohen   [SUNYLA rep] University at Albany
Peter Genovese    Monroe Community College
Carey Hatch   [ex officio] OLIS
Eleanor Heishman   [vice chair] University at Binghamton
Macdonald Holmes   [Academic Officers rep] College of Technology at Cobleskill
Geri Linkins  [SCLD Executive Board rep] Potsdam
Thomas Neiss   [ex officio] SUNYNet
Pamela Peters [secretary] College of Technology at Delhi
Michael Pisa [COA rep] College at Oswego
Larry Randall   [ex officio] OLIS
Maureen Zajkowski  [ex officio] OLIS
Vacancy:  SUBOA representative

 

The S.A.C. is currently involved in decision making related to implementation of the SUNYConnect LMS (ALEPH500). This involves the development of criteria for "hub" sites, implementation scheduling and development of policy and governance documents as well as of service level agreements (between different entities involved in making the SUNYConnect LMS a reality).

The OLIS would like to thank current and past members of S.A.C. (and LASG) for their efforts related to library automation services for the largest public university system.