Reviewed and endorsed by the ARL Board of Directors February 12-13, 2004
Approved by the GRN Advisory Committee March 26, 2004
Governance and Oversight--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Association of American Universities (AAU)
- Assess needs and establish a conceptual framework for collective action relating to international resources needed for North American scholarship and research.
- Sponsor the overall program and provide leadership and support for the GRN advisory committee.
- Set and periodically review and revise goals for the GRN program.
- Identify appropriate partner organizations and funders for GRN.
- Determine funding mechanisms and models appropriate for support of GRN.
- Assess success and determine program adjustments needed.
Developmental Activities--AAU, ARL, and Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
- Determine the scope and nature of activities to be undertaken, content to be identified.
- Develop and apply eligibility requirements and criteria for projects and participants.
- Identify, mobilize, and help initiate high-priority projects to advance GRN program goals and move them to an operational stage.
- Advance GRN through advocacy, community building, and information exchange among key stakeholders.
Enabling Activities--AAU, ARL, and Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
- Develop additional financial resources for ongoing operation of collective activities.
- Exercise stewardship over collectively developed resources and content.
Operational Support of Activities--CRL
AAU and ARL will establish a compact with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to provide leadership in the oversight for the management of the existing GRN projects that seek such assistance. This includes, potentially, the following kinds of support:
- Fiscal management (accounting, disbursements, invoicing, financial reporting and audits)
- Procurement of necessary legal services, e.g., review of contracts, agreements, templates for partnerships and collaborative activities, execution of cooperative agreements
- Project logistics (travel arrangements, meeting arrangements, communications, including project reporting, notifications, shipping and delivery of materials, etc.)
- Resources management (digital conversion, metadata development, hosting of resources, digital files management, dark archiving of digital files, migration/
preservation, etc.) - Rights acquisition and management, ensuring the execution, maintenance, and archiving of the appropriate releases and license agreements necessary to guarantee that the materials converted under the projects can continue to be disseminated according to the purposes of the project
- Licensing/managing subscription access to materials (developing the necessary language, statements, disclaimers and protocols prescribing the permissible uses of materials obtained/produced by the projects, to ensure observance of the terms of the aforementioned releases and agreements)
- Miscellaneous activities, such as cataloging, indexing, metadata creation, translation, export and editing of catalog records to utilities
