From: Houeida Charara <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:35:49 +0000
Dear Ann et al:

I serve on Springer MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Library Advisory
Board. Below is a link to a brief article that I wrote about my experience:*
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http://www.springer.com/librarians/library+advisory+board?SGWID=0-157002-12-755608-0
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Best regards,****

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HKC****

*Houeida Kammourié-Charara, D.F.A.P., MScEcon*

InfoCommons Librarian****

Library Liaison Communication Arts****

Lebanese American University


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Subject: Publishers' Librarian Advisory Boards

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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