CNSLP Consultation Meeting, September 25-26, 2002
Embassy West Hotel, Ottawa

The CNSLP steering committee hosted a dialogue among regional library groups, to share information on initiatives, explore issues, identify common causes and directions, and build a consensus on national strategies. Discussion took place in a facilitated workshop environment, and in the context of the following critical factors:

• the needs of the scholarly research community, that CNSLP was created to address, are increasing, along with libraries' challenges in ensuring coordination among multiple initiatives as well as effective communications with funders and stakeholders;
• there are several important digital library developments taking place or in the planning stages among universities at the provincial, regional and federal levels;
• the federal government clearly recognizes the strategic importance of university research and education and, where the university community has worked together to deliver coordinated messages, the federal government has demonstrated a willingness to respond with investments in, for example, the infrastructure (including libraries) that supports research and e-learning;
• by working together on a national basis, the university library community has been extraordinarily successful in securing funding and launching a ground-breaking initiative through CNSLP.

In this context, effective sharing of information and coordination of efforts among university library organizations, including CNSLP, is extremely important. Facilitator: Tony Nash, Inter-Connex Consulting Inc.

The following document provides a summary of the discussion that took place over two days, as the meeting participants identified key focus areas, success measures and defined priorities for action in the coming months.

	CNSLP Consultation Meeting Report	.doc    .pdf
	Appendices :	.doc    .pdf

	A. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS B. AGENDA and MEETING OBJECTIVES C. A REALITY CHECK; Presentation by Deb deBruijn, CNSLP Executive Director D. NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES: Presentations by:
		a) Canadian Association of Research Libraries   b) Council of Atlantic University Libraries   c) CREPUQ - Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universities du Québec   d) Ontario Council of University Libraries   e) Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries   f) Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information   g) National Library of Canada
	E. HOW WE HAVE TO BE SHAPED F. EVALUATION

A highlight of the meeting was a reception and dinner on Wednesday, September 25, when members of the local library and academic community joined meeting participants in celebrating CNSLP's successes to date.

	Dinner Program	.doc     .pdf.