NEW RESOURCE FOR DATABASE LICENSING NOW AVAILABLE

This document is intended to help library professionals consider some of the more common issues that come up in the licenses proposed by vendors of electronic resources. Many of the links and excerpts shared here have been collected in order to ease the use of existing library licensing guidelines authored and utilized by the Library of Congress, the Center for Research Libraries, the California Digital Library, University of California, and NELLCO Law Library Consortium, Inc.

Even if those arranging licenses on behalf of your institution may not feel as though they have a great deal of leeway in obtaining changes to vendor boilerplate language, they should consider the issues touched upon below when deciding whether the license offered fits in with the institution’s mission and objectives.

www.nellco.org/issuesineresourcelicensing

2023 VIRTUAL NELLCO SYMPOSIUM BEGINS WEDNESDAY

If you haven't registered yet, we are accepting registrations through the end of the day tomorrow. Register now!

The full schedule and session descriptions are up on the website. Nine interactive sessions, four interest group roundtables, eight vendor demos, one hot topic breakout, and one networking session all for you!

SYMPOSIUM HOT TOPICS NEEDED

If you're attending the Symposium and want to get more involved, we're hosting 20-minute Hot Topic breakouts on Monday, March 20 at 2:30 EDT / 1:30 CDT / 12:30 MDT / 11:30 PDT/MST. We want YOU to take the lead on a breakout with a topic you've been wanting to discuss with your colleagues. Email corie.dugas@nellco.org with your idea for a topic!

SPRINGING FORWARD WITH EBOOKS WEBINAR REGISTRATION OPEN

Springing Forward with Ebooks: Workflows, Lifecycles, and Best Practices

REGISTRATION

This presentation will cover workflows, best practices and address challenges that exist in the e-resource lifecycle for Ebooks. The speaker will provide insight on how to manage perpetual vs. licensed Ebooks, the differences in EBA and DDA, inconsistent vendor nomenclature surrounding EBooks, DRM and DRM-free acquisitions. Participants will discuss acquisition format preferences (electronic vs. print) and wins and challenges in managing Ebooks in their own libraries.

Kaci Resau is the Electronic Resources Manager at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Kaci has experience in crafting workflows and creating best management practices for the lifecycle of electronic resources. Her research interests include succession/workforce planning, policy and workflow creation, electronic resource management, and discovery. Kaci received her MLIS from the University of Alabama, MA in International Relations & Conflict Resolution at American Public University System, and her B.A. in Government & Politics at St. John's University. Kaci is a Doctoral Candidate in the Public Administration program at West Chester University, and her dissertation focuses on succession and workforce planning in libraries.