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:
http://www.springer.com/librarians/library+advisory+board?SGWID=0-157002-12-755608-0
Best regards,
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