USC beginning

Yesterday I met Barbara Shepard at USC and began the process of orientation. In addition to learning a bit about what is going on in her area, I had to get phone, email, and USC ID card. I also checked in with ISD's Human Resources.

Following a lunch treat at the University Club with Barbara and Deborah Holmes-Wong, who is working on metasearching using ZPortal, I settled in to reviewing the CIS documents on the intranet, mainly a charter spelling out the goals and project plan for 2004-2005. The plans are ambitious, including enabling OAI/PMH, evaluating user interfaces, expanding content, implementing a contributor module, not to mention management reporting and thesaurus management.

I walked to work yesterday and took the free USC Tram home, arriving just before the rains. It rained all night. The talk of the town.

Today I had occasion to meet Mr. Lynn Sipe, head of collections here. Continued to review Digital Information Management documents. I was interested to learn that the people who do scanning and digitizing are completely separate from this unit, that is just building the infrastructure for future digital projects.