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There are still places available for:
Working together in difficult times: strategies for e-resource budgeting, negotiation and collection review
JIBS User Group Annual Conference and AGM, on
Thursday 2nd December 2010, 10am until 4pm, to be held at
King's Manor<http://www.york.ac.uk/np/maps/kmdirect.htm>, York.
Organisations which are members of JIBS User Group may have 2 free places for this event.
Sessions will include:
* Discussion of the recent report 'Challenges for academic libraries in difficult economic times' produced by RIN in association with SCONUL and CIBER.
* W(h)ither the big deal? Is e-journal purchase about to fragment?"
* Reassessing the Value Proposition. Towards a Fair Price for Scholarly Journals'
* Driving a hard bargain: negotiating the NESLI2 deals and the prospects for the coming round
* SHEDL (Scottish Higher Education Digital Library) - Negotiating together: the present and future role of consortia in academic library purchasing
* Take part in a discussion session about 'Your ideal model licence'.
Further details and booking information can be found at:
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/work2gether/programme.htm
http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/work2gether/bookform.htm
Booking deadline is Monday 22nd of November.
For anyone tweeting, blogging or sharing other material about the event, please use the event tag JIBS2g ('#JIBS2g<http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23JIBS2g>' on Twitter) if you want to join in the discussion.
For enquiries about the event, please contact Louise Cole ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Catherine Parker ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
If you are interested in joining or learning more about JIBS please go to the JIBS User Group website at www.jibs.ac.uk<http://www.jibs.ac.uk/>.
Fiona Bowtell JIBS User Group vice chair
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