Where next for resource licensing? (JIBS / Eduserv workshop 16/06/10)

Where next for resource licensing?

Joint JIBS User Group and Eduserv event

Wednesday 16 June, 10.30am - 4pm

Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Do you know what your staff and students are allowed to do with the journals, databases or e-books your library provides for them?

Are you are an e-resources manager, already grappling with the thorny issues surrounding licence agreements?

This joint JIBS and Eduserv event will explore the issues around licences including :-
· the expanding customer base and distributed sites of most libraries
· the issues raised by cross institution arrangements, collaboration, affiliation and franchising
· our users’ expectations in a digital environment
· varying authentication systems and the management data they provide
· developments in machine-readable licences

Come along to this event to hear from some of the key players, and to put forward and discuss your problems and ideas.

See the programme at: http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/licensing/programme.htm

Booking form is at http://www.jibs.ac.uk/events/workshops/licensing/bookform.htm

We plan to report the event in a live blog. For anyone tweeting, blogging or sharing other material about the event, the event tag is ‘wn4rl’ (‘#wn4RL’ on Twitter).

For enquiries about the event, please contact Sue Cumberpatch (sc17@york.ac.uk) or Fiona Bowtell (f.bowtell@open.ac.uk).

If you are interested in joining or learning more about JIBS please go to the JIBS User Group website at http://www.jibs.ac.uk/, or if you would like to know more about Eduserv, please visit: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/