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I would like to notify you of a one-day course module, "Library
Consortia and Licesing", which is the third module of a course
"Digital Libraries à la Carte: Choices for the Future". The course
will be held 21-26 August 2005, at Tilburg University in the
Netherlands. It is targeted at an international audience. The five
modules can be attended seperately, but you can also combine the
"Library Consortia and Licensing" module with other modules.

The programme of "Module 3: Library Consortia and Licensing" is as
follows:

* Introduction on Consortia and Licensing
  Hans Geleijnse, CIO Tilburg University, NL

The history of licensing and consortia and the most important legal
aspects involved will be briefly discussed. The paper then examines
the future of consortia licensing and in particular the pros and cons
of the big deals, the alternative approaches and the future of
consortia in the era of open archives and open access. Now that the
access to electronic information and availability of vendor systems to
use this information are no longer a distinctive activity for most
libraries, the question arises whether libraries should not be
prepared to give up some of their autonomy and leave these activities
to national or even international entities. The academic library could
then fully concentrate on the provision of services that really make a
difference for their end-users.

* E-Collections: Where Are We Going and How Will
  We Get There?
  Carol Tenopir, Professor of Information Sciences,
  University of Tennessee, School of Information
  Sciences, College of Communication and Information, USA

E-collections provide opportunities and complexities that are changing
the way librarians make collection decisions. Better (or at least
more) usage data, variations in licenses and price models, new
partnerships by publishers and libraries, all result in new ways to
think about collections. New standards for usage data now reveal how
many items are requested or downloaded from each source and, combined
with cost and size of user population data, can help librarians make
informed decisions of what resources to keep. Varying licenses and
price models allow librarians to choose between unlimited use
subscriptions, pay per use, pay per download, or open access sources.

Multiple options must be considered to get the best mix for each
library situation and librarians must learn to think of multiple
pricing options depending on use and cost of resources. In addition,
working partnerships in the publishing marketplace have resulted in
interlinked resources through CrossRef, virtual journals, and some
duplication of sources across aggregations. Librarians must build
interlinked collections that take duplication into account. Library
partnerships include multi-library consortia that make collective
collection development decisions and librarians must decide which
consortial agreements are the best for their library. In addition,
library collections are now served by a new group of intermediaries,
including link resolver companies and metasearch services.

All of these developments allow e-collection development to be more
closely tailored to the needs of individual libraries and their
constituents, but also require much more time by librarians to decide
what among many choices are best for their situation.

* The Road is Paved with Good Intentions: Best
  Practices for Relationship Management in Successful
  Collaborations
  Deb deBruijn, Executive Director, Canadian Research
  Knowledge Network, Canada

Library consortia have emerged in recent years as significant players
in the networked information ecosystem, and play key roles in
formalizing business practices as libraries move from informal
cooperation to more formal collaboration. However, while consortia are
often well-versed in license negotiations and e-collections
management, they may underestimate the relationship and change
management skills that are critical for successful and sustained
collaborations.

This presentation will explore principles and best practices of
consortia with regard to relationship management among members,
external stakeholders, funders and suppliers, and provide an overview
of factors that can cause good ideas to fail or valuable partnerships
to be undermined. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of
skill development for consortia that wish to strengthen their
"collaboration competencies" and advance licensing initiatives as well
as new service ventures.

* Practical workshop: Pitfalls and Boobytraps:
  Consortia, Licences and Negotiations
  Nol Verhagen, Librarian, University of Amsterdam
  and Chairman of the Dutch UKB consortium, NL

Goals of the workshop: to help you identify your own position as
member of a consortium by analysing the status of your consortium and
its main objectives; to make you aware of threats and opportunities of
your own consortium; to formulate answers to the question 'what next'.

To guarantee a highly interactive programme, the number of
participants is limited to 45, lectures contain an interactive
component, and the modules is concluded with a practical workshop. The
module is recommended by JISC (www.jisc.ac.uk/) in the UK.

The course website can be found at www.ticer.nl/05carte/. On the
website you can find information about the other four course modules,
the full programme, the complete list of lecturers with short bios,
abstracts of most presentations and practical information about course
fee and registration.

If you register before 1 June 2005, you will get a €150 discount.

        Do you want a quick update in just one day?
        Then Tilburg is the place to be this summer!

Further information
Ms Jola Prinsen
Course Manager Ticer B.V.
P.O. Box 4191
5004 JD Tilburg
The Netherlands
tel. +31 13 466 8310
fax  +31 13 466 8383
e-mail [log in to unmask]
www.ticer.nl/05carte/