Administrative Host. The Administrative Host is the organization providing program management and member support as well as acting as the fiscal agency for EAST, including procurement of and management of outside grant funding. The Boston Library Consortium (BLC) serves as the Administrative Host for EAST. EAST is managed as an independent project, separate from other programs, services and activities of the BLC. There is no requirement for EAST members to join the BLC or for BLC members to join EAST.
Administrative Host. Administrative Hosting, such as program management, member support, and fiscal agency, will be provided by COPPUL, through the COPPUL office. The COPPUL SPAN will function as a program of COPPUL, subject to approval by the COPPUL Board of Directors.
Administrative Host. Administrative hosting, such as program management and member support, will be provided under the auspices of the Maine InfoNet Collaborative.
Administrative Host. The Administrative Host is an organization that provides program management, member support, and fiscal agency for WEST. The WEST Executive Committee is responsible for administering the contract or other relationship with the Administrative Host. The Administrative Host serves an initial term of 3 years, which may be extended annually or for additional multiple-year terms by mutual agreement. After the initial term, Administrative Host responsibility may be terminated by either party with a minimum of 12 months’ notice. The California Digital Library serves as the Administrative Host for WEST for the initial 3-year term January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2013.
Administrative Host. The administrative host serves as the fiscal agent for the initiative and will need to be equipped to handle accounting and throughput, including all membership billing and contracts. The role of host may be taken on by one institution or an existing consortium. Project personnel such as the program manager may be physically located at the host which will then require office facilities and equipment and human resources overhead. The University of Maine acted as the MSCS’s administrative host. This decision was partly based on a belief that the project was more likely to have its grant funding proposal accepted if a public institution were host than if it were one of the private academic institutions. The University of Maine also has its own Office of Research & Sponsored Programs which was responsible for reviewing and approving the project budget and for financial reporting to IMLS. MSCS found that demands placed on host financial staff working at the University of Maine’s Fogler Library were greater than anticipated and periodically greater than that of host staff actually on working group committees. This was mostly a result of grant financial reporting requirements.
