ACUP Goes West

• Goals/Objectives: What they hoped to accomplish.

• Implementation: Examples of how this plan would be implemented.

• Summary/Conclusion

In a similar session, Sue Sheehan and Bill McCart pointed out the advantages that the University of California, Berkeley, realized when it recently merged its printing and mailing operations. Because printing and mailing is now handled in one continuous process, there are no more "hand-off glitches" between the departments, Sheehan said. Also, jobs can be given more time in the printing stage when needed if the department knows that mailing won't take long.