Apologies for cross posting
There are still some 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
Organisations which are members of JIBS User Group may have 2 free places for this event.
Other organisations are very welcome, and the fee is £50.
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:
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'
on Twitter) if you want to join in the discussion.
If you are interested in joining or learning more about JIBS please go to the JIBS User Group website at
www.jibs.ac.uk.
Fiona Bowtell JIBS User Group vice chair
