From: "Rodriguez, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:04:31 +0000

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Please join the LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resources Management Interest
Group for our ALA Midwinter panel on “Vendor Relationships: Build,
Negotiate, Transform.” This panel will feature presentations followed
by discussion, questions from the moderator (interest group chair
Michael Rodriguez), and audience Q&A. The event will take place on
Sunday, February 11, from 1:00-2:30 PM in the Colorado Convention
Center Room 303.

Link to the ALA Scheduler Session

Program Description

Libraries and vendors are all too often trapped in the paradigm of
simply exchanging content and services for dollars. Moving away from
this legacy approach, our panel will ask: How can vendors and
libraries build strategic partnerships? How can we collaborate to
create better resources and services and to transform the scholarly
communication ecosystem? What can impede these partnerships? What are
some best practices for libraries to negotiate and advocate
effectively and ethically with vendors? Are positive working
relationships always necessary or feasible? What roles can library
consortia play in this ecosystem? And ultimately, how can we as
libraries collectively build, negotiate, sustain, leverage, and
transform our vendor relationships?

Speakers

·         Jason Chabak, Director of Institutional Sales & Business
Development at ReadCube

·         Lindsay Cronk, Head of Collection Strategies at the
University of Rochester

·         Allen Jones, Director for Digital Library and Technical
Services at the New School

·         Christine Stamison, Director of the NorthEast Research
Libraries Consortium

·         Kimberly Steinle, Library Relations and Sales Manager at
Duke University Press

We look forward to seeing you at this program!

Regards,

Michael Rodriguez
Chair, LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resources Management Interest Group
Licensing/Acquisitions Librarian
University of Connecticut
369 Fairfield Way U-1005B | Storrs, CT 06269
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