[Eril-l] ALCTS webinar: Negotiation & Cost Containment Strategies for Electronic Resources

[ALCTS-CE Announce]

*Cross posted to multiple lists*

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
<http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/Iicensing>.

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
How to Register: Complete the individual webinar online registration form
<http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=olweb&Template=/Conference/ConferenceList.cfm&ConferenceTypeCode=X>
or the complete series online registration
<http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=eventsconf&Template=/Conference/ConferenceList.cfm&ConferenceTypeCode=M>
form. You must log in to register.

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 at 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 at ala.org.

Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
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