Univ. of Colorado project improves IT relations.(INFOTECH)(Brief article)

Rice Majors, assistant professor and director of libraries information technology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, gave a quick "lightning talk" at the recent Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum. In it, he spoke about a project that has, in a small way, improved relations between the university's Office of Information Technology (OIT) and the libraries' separate IT unit.

Majors told LJ that when he first came to the campus a year and a half ago, the libraries' and university's IT departments had a long history of noncooperation. Majors and university administration wanted that to change.

At a monthly meeting he had late last …