Hi everyone,

 

Are you attending ALA Midwinter in February? Are you free on Sunday, February 11, from 1:00-2:30 PM?

Please consider attending our panel on “Vendor Relationships: Build, Negotiate, Transform.” Sponsored by the LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resources Management Interest Group and moderated by yours truly, this panel will feature presentations followed by discussion, questions from the moderator, and audience Q&A.

 

The event will take place 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 our panel event!

 

We are also looking for a new co-chair for this interest group—so if you are interested in such a role, please come to the event and say hello!

 

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

michael.a.rodriguez@uconn.edu | 860-486-9325