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CNSLP Strategy Session, Halifax, September 12-13, 2001

Updated: October 18, 2001  

CNSLP held a strategic planning session in Halifax on Sept 12-13, 2001, that brought together a representative cross-section of CNSLP participants to focus on future directions and priorities. The session was facilitated by Tony Nash of Inter-Connex Consulting Inc.

Presentations Made at the Strategy Session

• Contextual Remarks - Deb deBruijn
• New Tools, New Data, New Ideas - David F. Kohl

Session Outcomes and Documents
Throughout the strategy session, diverse perspectives and expertise were brought to bear on key issues affecting CNSLP. By the end of the session, participants were agreed on the following:

• CNSLP has a core purpose and mission;
• there is considerable consensus that CNSLP move forward, and expand its scope;
• we have created a long-term opportunity with CNSLP;
• there is consensus that CNSLP will continue with a national strategy for all-inclusive licensing for academic institutions, but with new cost-sharing models that recognize program diversity and institutional size;
• CNSLP is going to be able to report how the current products are being used;
• there is consensus that what CNSLP has done is successful;
• there is still a great deal to do.

Feedback to these drafts will inform deliberations of the CNSLP Steering Committee, who will meet November 21, 2001.

Please direct feedback to Deb deBruijn (email: debruijn@uottawa.ca, fax: 613-562-5195) no later than November 12, 2001.

• Excerpt (summary) from "As was said" Session Report
• Full "As was said" Session Report