Hi, a colleague attended a session at ALA on the ONEAL project. I could not remember this group when I was thinking of sources for help with licensing. I highly recommend checking out what the ONEAL Project has going on. Here's what my colleague shared:
"Learn How to Negotiate for a More Sustainable Future." This session featured presenters who developed the Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries (ONEAL) project, an OER negotiation course specifically for librarians.
Listed as one of ALA's "Core Values and Career Development" sessions, the description reads: "Do you negotiate for resources or services for your library? Did you have to learn negotiation skills and strategies on the job? Did you ever imagine that you'd have to understand the nitty gritty of contracts and licensing? If so, you will leave this session aware of a new free resource and community that can support you in developing your negotiation knowledge and skills..."
The open curriculum covers critical issues in academic libraries that intersect with contract negotiations, including user privacy, platform governance, emerging publishing models, author rights, and computational collections research.
Even if you don't negotiate directly with vendors, as the presenters highlighted, negotiation is a transformative skill that can apply to our daily lives.
Susan
Original Message:
Sent: 7/5/2024 1:54:00 PM
From: Kerry Walton
Subject: RE: Follow up from IG meeting at ALA
Thank you for getting this conversation and the Google sheet started, Susan! It was great talking with you at ALA. There are many great resources mentioned here and we'd love to see a repository of resources for e-resources librarians. I am the past chair of ERIG but the discussion yielded many great ideas and topics for future work of the interest group, now being led by Anne Larrivee and Taylor Ralph. Please continue the discussion and I encourage individuals to develop networks to reach out to one another when you have a question or need support. I am always happy to be a resource and mentor for eresource librarians/staff across all libraries.
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Kerry Walton, Associate Dean (Interim), Electronic Resources Librarian
West Chester University
She/Hers
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Original Message:
Sent: Jul 03, 2024 12:09 PM
From: Susan Davis
Subject: Follow up from IG meeting at ALA
Hi all, there was a great discussion at the IG meeting at ALA 2024 in San Diego. One of the topics we discussed was training for e-resources librarians. One person suggested a crowd sourcing effort to compile resources.
As it happens, I gave a presentation at the 2022 NASIG conference talking about just that idea for the Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians entitled "Creating a Curriculum for the ERL Core Competencies." I created a Google sheet to try to capture a set of resources to aid librarians and library staff in mastering the competencies.
Please feel free to add your thoughts to the sheet.
I mentioned the Carterette webinars during the discussion. Here's a link for more information. https://gla.georgialibraries.org/carterette-series-webinars/ In particular, this webinar might be of great interest.
2022
Self-Learning in an Electronic Resources Librarian Role
Presented by Chris Vidas & Eve Stano,
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Session Materials: Slides
Susan
Susan Davis (she/her/hers)
Acquisitions Librarian for Continuing Resources and Licensing Specialist
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
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