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Appendix A Federation Models
Appendix A Federation Models
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The examples of federation models appear as written by the authors, with minor editing for continuity of style.
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Most academic federations and organizations include several common governance structures: fulltime staff, a clearly articulated mission, a Board of Directors, an Executive Committee that can respond quickly to ongoing management issues, plus committees to advance the work of the membership. The EOSDIS Federation may need comparable organizational structures.
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; programs and services promote equitable access to and · Eight standing committees; effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teach · Many working groups and project advisory committees; ing, research, scholarship, and community service. The · Executive Committee - president, past president, and association articulates the concerns of research libraries president-elect; and their institutions, forges coalitions, influences informa · All powers of a corporation (e.g., contracts, hiring, lion policy development, and supports innovation and firing)
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issues of importance to the research library community · Regular review (yearly) of priorities permits needed *
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The structure of the Harvard library federation allows the individual libraries to maintain complete control over collection policies, finances, and all aspects of internal operations. Money flows from these autonomous libraries to support unifying services, such as online catalog, depository, and preservation.
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Library is now in the process of procuring a second generation integrated library system. · The Harvard Depository has been successful in serving the Harvard library community · The Harvard University Library Preservation Center is I recognized as a national leader in its field.
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The Partnership Work Programme from which each individual partnership is derived includes over 1,000 activities annually, activities such as workshops, technical exchanges, exercises, consultations, and training courses. The partnership covered a broad range of security issues from military exercises in peacekeeping to the democratic control of armed forces.
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· Biannual meetings of defense and foreign ministers · Strategic objectives: provide strategic direction; * Prepare some partners for NATO membership; · North Atlantic Council (NATO ambassadors)
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and gas business, which has the potential to change the way we do our business or reveal new business opportunities. By calling it strategic research and by giving the responsibility to one individual we believe we have made it a strong and focused part of our overall technology strategy.
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· flexibility. Virtual R&D organization that allows access to wider Benefits to Collaborator: range of creative ideas than possible in traditional internal industrial R&D organization.
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This presentation suggests that the framers of the United States Constitution engaged in what they called "a science of constitutions," which employed the scientific method; a geometric model; measurements and proportions; Newtonian physics; and, what is today recognized as systems science. It addresses the goal of the Constitution framers, the science they used, their design process, and the resulting system.
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RESULTS OF COLLABORATION LESSONS LEARNED · Distributed benefits; · A systemic, holistic model based on an intercon · Distributed burdens; nected mixture of distributed local authority and a · Flexibility over time; central, overarching authority works; · Coexisting experiments in different local parts with · The American experiment: based on Newtonian same or similar subject matter allows best alterna- concepts; fives to emerge; · Science can be the foundation of governance (not · Self-financed with distribution of fiscal resources necessarily government) systems; according to self-determined governing policies.
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There has always existed a tension between individual investigators and UCAR over the division of NSF funds between them as a zero sum game and the potential opportunity loss for individual universities to own and operate major facilities. There have also been issues of UCAR programs competing with the private sector.
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sary scope ofthe board's oversight to include fiduciary, policy, and political issues. Benefits to individual members: · Some UCAR programs terminated: Institute for Naval Oceanography at Stennis Walter Orr Roberts Institute, · Access to large centrally managed facilities and National Scientific Balloon Facility.
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