From:  Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:52:55 -0500

Dear Liblicense-l Readers:  A number of publishers have librarian
advisory boards for your presses/publishing houses or specific
products (examples would be, say, Nature Journals, or Gale World
Scholar); a number of librarians serve on such boards.

If you are a publisher who convenes such a library board, could you
give us some information about how you choose members, how you
develop agendas, what is the charge and purpose of the group, how
helpful is it in content development, or user interfaces, or pricing, and
the like?  Are there better or less good ways to utilize this expertise?

If you're a librarian, have you found your experience to make a
difference and if so, then how?  Do you get advance insights into new
products?  Help to shape them?  Are you better informed about your
library work, as a result?  Otherwise put, is either the journal or you
demonstrably the better for the experience -- or both of you?

All responses are most welcomed; this is a topic much discussed in
corners so it would be useful to bring it out to a wider audience.

Cordially,  Ann Okerson
Moderator
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