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ALCTS webinar: Negotiation & Cost Containment Strategies for Electronic Resources
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2018
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 AM Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 PM Central, and 2 PM Eastern time.
This is the fourth session in a six-part series. View the other sessions in this series.
During this six-part webinar series, attendees will learn the fundamental structure of contracts, commonly used terms, and how to address indemnification clauses, constraints on use permissions, problems of legal jurisdiction, perpetual access rights, and some more recent developments such as the pursuit of text and data mining rights. Contributors will also explore some complex legal issues and other aspects of electronic resources management including how to maintain positive working relationships with vendors, track important changes in business models and technologies, and control costs. Above all, attendees should understand how licensing does not occur in a vacuum, but must be well grounded in a complex chain of information exchange within and beyond the library, all of which should be undertaken to support the library’s mission as understood and implemented by the library administration.
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Description: Licensing electronic resources must be undertaken in a way that supports the library’s mission by providing access to the highest possible number of databases, electronic journals, eBooks, and streaming media at the lowest possible cost. While the specific objectives and strategies of libraries will vary, skilled librarians must undertake a number of complex tasks in order to successfully license electronic resources. Some of the most important of these tasks or objectives include: negotiating the best possible terms in complex license agreements, maintaining positive working relationships with library vendors, communicating important information to internal and external constituencies, tracking changes in business models and relevant technologies, providing data for collection analysis, as well as coordinating their work with library administrators.
Learning outcomes:
Attendees will be asked to consider taking a more holistic approach to their routine work, first by understanding the general state of the contemporary information marketplace and then by identifying the place of one's own library in the overall "information ecosystem." While maintaining positive working relationships with sales representatives and other vendor personnel, librarians will be shown some practical techniques for pursuing the library's interests in a competitive marketplace: 1) how to select, combine, and sometimes even develop business models for serial and monographic e-resource acquisitions, 2) how to prepare for and conduct negotiations, 3) how to work with and evaluate partnerships with other libraries and consortia, 4) and finally how to avoid some common mistakes and other pitfalls.
Who should attend?
New librarians will likely benefit the most from this session, but all librarians interested in licensing electronic resources may benefit from the discussion of negotiation techniques, the evaluation of business models, and cost containment strategies.
Presenter:
George Stachokas is the electronic resources librarian at Auburn University in Alabama. Previously, he served as head of resource services and special assistant to the dean for project management at Purdue University, and electronic resources librarian at Indiana State University. Stachokas holds an MLIS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MA in history from Indiana State University, and a BS in economics from Purdue University—West Lafayette.
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Registration Fees:
Registration fees for single webinar: ALCTS Member $43; Non-member $59; Group rate $129
Registration fees for webinar series: ALCTS Member $206; Non-member $283; Group rate $619
For additional information about this webinar, please go to the following website:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/091218
For more information about this series of webinars, please go to the following website: http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/Iicensing
All webinars are recorded and the one-time fee includes unlimited access to the webinar recording. All registered attendees will receive the link to the recorded session so if you are unable to attend the webinar at the time it is presented, you will have the opportunity to listen to the recording at your convenience.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Megan Dougherty, Program Officer, ALCTS Continuing Education at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5038 or mdougherty@ala.org.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
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