1. CLOUD FLOW
Using Tailored Workflows and Cloud Computing to Get Better Materials Requests.
Pete Coco
Liaison Librarian for the Liberal Arts, Grand Valley State University
cocop@gvsu.edu  @pfcoco  www.pete-coco.com
Presented the Charleston Conference, November 5 2011

2. Deadlines
Budgets
Salience
Communication

3. THE ENGLISH M.A. AT GVSU

4. Budgets &
Deadlines
Deadlines
Chair
Librarian ORIGINAL WORKFLOW Faculty
Deadline batch
of requests w/ Grad. Titles for Request
metadata (.xls) Assistant

5. HOW’D IT GO?

7. Deadlines
Budgets
Salience
Communication

8. Portion of
Budgets &
Budget &
Deadlines Chair Deadlines
[actual]
Librarian Faculty
ORIGINAL WORKFLOW
Deadline batch
Requests &
of requests w/ Grad. Topics to Search
metadata (.xls) Assistant

9. Grad.
Assistant

10. Grad.
Assistant

11. Librarian Individual
Order info
requests with
metadata
Training and
communication
Grad.
Assistant

12. The Larger
Why & How
Longer term
considerations
Chair
Budgets & deadlines
Librarian

13. On Time
On Budget
Salient
Lines Open

14. HOW DO YOU REPLICATE
THIS?

16. FUTURE NOW

17. Photos
Slide 1: Roadway, low horizon, mountains, clouded sky, "Near (Grand) Teton National Park,",
1933 – 1942.” http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=519911
Slide 2: “Cats that Webchick is herding.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceardach/
4549865709/
Slide 5: “[Portrait of Charlie Barnet and Re-Bop, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1946] (LOC).”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5189338179/
Slide 10: “Bumper V-2 Launch.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/4857944855/
Slide 12: “Tailors workshop at tram depot in Stockholm in 1948.” http://www.flickr.com/
photos/stockholmtransportmuseum_commons/6081774887/
Slide 13: “Convair : Model 118.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/