[Libs-Or] New Books Available from State Library: Managing Electronic Resources & Licensing Information Resources and Services

Tue Nov 20 09:09:51 PST 2012

The following new titles are available for interlibrary loan from the Oregon State Library. If you would like to request these or other materials from the Oregon State Library, please use your library's established interlibrary loan process or send your full name, the name of your library, complete title information, shipping address, and a phone number to the document delivery department at library.request at state.or.us<mailto:library.request at state.or.us> or (fax) 503-588-7119. Items will be checked out to your library, not to you personally, for 4 weeks (print materials) or 2 weeks (videos). Materials will be delivered via mail or Orbis Cascade Alliance Courier, and you may return them the same way. Normally a single copy is purchased and is loaned on a first-come-first-serve basis. Should the item prove popular, you may be put on a hold list for several weeks. Thank you for your patience.
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Weir, Ryan O. Managing Electronic Resources: A LITA Guide. Chicago: ALA TechSource, 2012. ISBN: 978-1-55570-767-5

Publisher's Description
Electronic resource management encompasses much more than turning on and off resources and tracking usage. This guide provides advice on the tools and best practices of the field help you tackle your workload while saving you time, effort, and money.

Chapters include:

• Coping with Economic Issues
• Acquiring Electronic Resources
• Negotiating Resource Licensing
• Reconciling with Payment Systems
• Making Electronic Resource Accessible
• Gathering, Evaluating and Communicating Statistical Usage Information
• Changing Staff to Facilitate the Shift to Electronic
• Looking Ahead from Now to 2020
Within these chapters, you’ll find a host of innovative ideas to help you, your employees or co-workers, get the job done with ease. You’ll learn how to track and assign staff tasks electronically, accumulate and assimilate information from departmental and interdepartmental meetings, manage email and written correspondence, track renewals, evaluate and negotiate license agreements. You’ll discover how to manage all this information with free applications and software – or with programs already on your office computer. This includes using Excel to keep electronic stats, tracking vendor contact information in Access, and create a database detailing ILL permissions and restrictions. You’ll also find out how to use Google Docs, Forms, and Calendar to track information about renewals, statistics, and problem reporting.

Informative, useful, current, Managing Electronic Resources: A LITA Guide<http://catalog.willamette.edu/record=b2255757%7ES2> shows readers how to use what’s available to them to successfully manage their time, resources, and relationships with vendors and staff to ensure personal, professional and institutional success.

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Lipinski, Tomas A. The Librarian's Legal Companion for Licensing Information Resources and Services. Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-55570-610-4

Publisher's Description
Legal expert Lipinski offers a definitive sourcebook<http://catalog.willamette.edu/record=b2229854%7ES2> for information licensing in libraries, including copyright and contract matters, general contract law concepts, developments in online and information contracting; and the advantages and disadvantages of licensing. Readers will find clear guidance on deciphering the legalese in agreements, advice on negotiating or countering provisions with library-friendly alternatives, and detailed explanations of specific licenses as well as a discussion of issues regarding online and information contracting. Additionally, three special sections provide valuable information in an easy-to-reference format:
·         Deconstructions of four common license agreements: Access Newspaper Archive, BioOne, Nature Academic, and Amazon.com Kindle
·         Answers to 126 questions about specific licensing agreements, plus a glossary, checklist and review tool for evaluating a license agreement
·         20 key issues in licensing agreements, accompanied by sample clauses
You’ll save time, money, and unnecessary stress by putting the law on your side with this all-in-one guide to buying and licensing agreements.

Table of Contents
See publisher’s website: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=4042.
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This collection is supported in whole by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library.

Thanks,
Jen

Jennifer Maurer
School Library Consultant
Oregon State Library
250 Winter Street NE
Salem, OR 97301
503.378.5011
jennifer.maurer at state.or.us<mailto:jennifer.maurer at state.or.us>

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