ALA Meeting Announcement: ALCTS/PVLR Interest Group

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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005
From: Amy McColl (Swarthmore College) <amccoll1_at_swarthmore.edu>
Subject:  ALA Meeting Announcement: ALCTS/PVLR Interest Group

Please plan to attend the ALCTS Publisher - Vendor - Library Relations 
Interest Group Open Forum in San Antonio:

Standardized License Expression : Clarity, Control and Fair Use

8 - 10 AM on Monday morning, January 23, 2006
Room 204B in the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center

Some of the most difficult issues related to the management of 
electronic resources revolve around licensing. To help ease the pain, 
many are calling for a new set of industry standards to express license 
terms more clearly and simply. While all segments of the library market 
have a stake in these developments, their goals and requirements may 
sometimes seem to be in conflict with one another. With an introduction 
by Tim Jewell (of ERMI Group fame), libraries, publishers, and 
standards organizations will describe various perspectives on what's 
needed, and how best to move forward. Speakers include: Trisha Davis, 
Ohio State University; Alicia Wise, Publishers Licensing Society, UK; 
Brian Green, EDitEUR; and Richard Fyffe, University of Kansas. 

PVLR hosts an open forum at each ALA Conference, summer and winter.  
Recent topics have included: 

Publishers and Librarians Respond to the DLF/ERMI Report 
The Impact of ISBN-13 on Publishers, Vendors and Libraries 
When are eBooks THE Books? 
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Why Online Content Disappears 
A New Seal of Approval: Print and Electronic Approval Plans in the 21st 
Century 

We conduct our business meeting every conference at 1:30 PM on Saturday 
afternoon.  To learn about how you might get involved with this
important 
work, please contact the chair:

Ruth Fischer, Chair, PVLR Interest Group
ruth_at_R2consulting.org
End of Term: 06/30/06

Amy M. McColl
Asst. Head of Technical Services, Swarthmore College Library
500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081
Phone: 610-328-8484; Fax: 610-328-7329; Email: amccoll1_at_swarthmore.edu 

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