Goals for 2003

• Participate in the proposed UNESCO, ISTEC, IBICT and Virginia Tech joint grant project to expand the adoption of EDT’s in Latin American Universities [Ongoing]
• Establish regional executive committees for LibLink efforts in Venezuela and Colombia based on the work done by Johann and Jorge on site visits. [Ongoing]
• Continued support and development of existing regional offices:
  • The Executive Committee of REBIDIMEX will continue to receive publicity and planning support through the efforts of Jorge Garcia to arrange digital library meetings and other events [Jorge helped with and attended @MIGOS meeting, Johann and Jorge participated in the INAOE event]
  • The offices in Brazil and Argentina will continue to receive small operations budgets that will go to Bel Santoro and Marisa de Guisti respectively, as in previous years.
• Make implementation of CELSIUS (the Automated Document Delivery System) a requirement for REDD users.
• Publicize the new membership category that will allow groups of libraries or digital library projects to join LibLink which was approved by the ISTEC Board of Directors in November 2001. [EDUC.AR Biblioteca Pública Digital in Argentina was notified – awaiting their decision]
• Create or link to ISTEC-wide web-based forms for LibLink:
  • Event planning and the pricelist for such services
  • Consulting requests and a pricelist
  • Requests for workshops and talks by LibLink speakers
• Work with ISTEC members and partners interested in ETD’s to write a grant for the creation of a web-based tutorial system to train members in the planning and creation of local ETD projects. [Ongoing]
• Continue to work toward licensing arrangements for an electronic citation and content proposal.
• Begin work on an ISTEC Organizational Archive and Document Repository based on the Open Archives and ISTEC Chips & Salsa Initiatives
• Continue creating opportunities for Latin American digital library workers to work/study/do exchanges with international DLL projects such as the Los Alamos Library-Without-Walls project
• Continue DLL workshops and assist member training initiatives
• The Digital LibLink portion of the Quarterly Newsletter is used to update members. We want to encourage regional operations to report on their activities also.
  We are exploring new ways to recruit new members such as visiting organizational home pages to find the most likely library representatives.