ARL Basic Licensing Workshop

[Mary Case <marycase@arl.org>]

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ARL Announces...
Upcoming Basic Workshop On Licensing Electronic Information Resources

Monday - Tuesday, August 13-14, 2001, Novi Michigan

Hilton Novi
21111 Haggerty Road
Novi, MI 48375
Cut off date for hotel reservations: July 20, 2001

The Hilton Novi is 20 minutes from the Detroit airport.

Co-sponsored by Michigan Library Consortium, INCOLSA and OhioNet.

This is the last Basic Workshop to be held in 2001.  Register early to
ensure a place.

Full details and registration information are available at:
http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/lworkshop.html

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License Review and Negotiation
Building a Team-Based Institutional Process

Purpose and Overview:

This two-day workshop:
1.  reviews the legal foundations of license agreements;
2.  engages the participants in a review of license terms and
    conditions;
3.  highlights the importance of and present strategies for developing
    an institutional process for license review, negotiation, and
    administration; and
4.  provides participants with an opportunity to assess and practice
    negotiation skills.

Target Audience:

The workshop is open to librarians and other institutional staff engaged
in the process of reviewing and negotiating licenses for electronic
resources with information providers on behalf of the library, the
institution as a whole, or a consortium.  Individuals might

include those who are responsible for:

* reviewing licenses in the library;
* recommending, acquiring, or servicing electronic resources;
* determining and implementing the technical requirements for electronic
  resources;
* reviewing licenses for electronic library resources in the
  legal counsel's office;
* negotiating and/or signing licenses for electronic resources on behalf
  of the institution.

Institutional teams representing, for example, the library, computing
center, and the legal counsel's office, are encouraged.

Workshop Leaders:

Angee Baker
Vice President, Planning and Strategic Alliances
SOLINET

Trisha Davis
Head, Serials and Electronic Resources Department,
The Ohio State University Libraries

Karen Hersey
Senior Intellectual Property Counsel,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Registration

Attendance is limited to 60 participants.  The registration fee includes

resource materials, breakfast, lunch, and breaks.

ARL, MLC, INCOLSA, and OhioNet member libraries:   $350
Nonmember libraries:   $450

Register at http://www.arl.org/scomm/licensing/lworkshop.html


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Mary M. Case
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication
Association of Research Libraries
Suite 800
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington, DC  20036
202-296-2296
202-872-0884 (fax)
marycase@arl.org
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