Knowledge base management has never been a simple task and has become ever more complex as the variety of e-Resources that require management continues to increase. Maintenance is unending. Workflows constantly evolve. Join this e-Forum to to share insights and tips with colleagues, learn about standards, and express hopes for possible developments.
The role of technical services in the 21st century research library will be considered against a backdrop of current trends in universities, research, and scholarly communications. Many natural library responses, including the curation of the evolving scholarly record and the implementation of campus research information systems, all offer potential engagement for technical services librarians. These opportunities will be reviewed in order to chart a positive future for technical services specialists and the services they deliver.
Review of the structure and legal significance of language in license agreements with a discussion of the most important provisions and requirements for libraries.
In this webinar, OhioLINK’s Deputy Director, Operations and eLicensing will cover what is involved when working on a consortial license and the factors considered when working through contract terms.
This webinar series examines 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.
This webinar is part two of a two-part series which will focus on coordinating licensing administration, collections, and acquisitions, and integrating licenses into local administrative and technical ecosystems.
This webinar focuses on managing the licenses that your institution has already negotiated and understanding how they impact various stakeholders within your library and institution.
This webinar offers a holistic approach to develop and maintain positive business relationships with library vendors, select and propose appropriate business models that meet the interests of libraries, how to prepare for and conduct negotiations, and above all, how to obtain the most content at the lowest possible cost within the overall framework of your library's collection development strategy.
The main themes of this webinar are that podcasts have unique and useful scholarly and leisurely material that is easy to access and that librarians can be on the front lines of organizing and marketing them.
In this webcast for librarians in all types of libraries, Sue Polanka, Head, Reference and Instruction, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and Chair of the Reference Books Bulletin Editorial Board, talks about the value and potential of interactive features, and representatives from Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, ABC-CLIO, and Paratext demonstrate their newest interactive features and give us a preview of what’s coming next.