Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 10:58:30 -0400
From: Susan Davis <unlsdb@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
Subject: CONSORTIAL ARRANGEMENTS: THE REAL DEAL

 CONSORTIAL ARRANGEMENTS:  THE REAL DEAL
 Open Forum on Consortia  (Updated announcement)

 ALA ALCTS Publisher/Vendor Library Relations Committee
 ALA Annual Meeting 1997, San Francisco

 Monday, June 30 1997  9:30-11:00 am
 Hotel Nikko, Grey Pearl 1

 Consortial arrangements for electronic resources are now in vogue, but
 most libraries are learning as they go.  Come hear what publishers,
 vendors, librarians, and consortia directors with experience in the
 negotiation trenches have to tell us about:

        Defining Consortia
        Consortial licensing agreements
        Consortial pricing models
        Intra-Consortial service issues

 and other issues regarding these arrangements.

 Panelists are:

 Barbara Allen, Director, CIC Center for Library Initiatives
 Vin Caraher, Senior VP and Product Line Managing Director, ISI
 Richard De Gennaro, Senior Library Advisor, JSTOR
 Sharon Cline McKay, Technical Sales Manager, Blackwell, USA
 Martha Richardson, ASERL Program Officer, SOLINET
 Tom Sanville, Executive Director, OhioLINK
 Moderator: Trisha Davis, PVLRC Chair

 Bring your questions to ask the panelists and join us at the PVLRC
 Open Forum.

 For further information contact Susan Davis, Head, Periodicals, SUNY, Buffalo
 at unlsdb@acsu.buffalo.edu or Cindy Shelton, Head, Bibliographers Group, UCLA
  at cshelton@library.ucla.edu.