WMLA Annual Meeting 2002
WMLA 2002 Annual Meeting
April 4-5
Bastyr University
Kenmore, Washington
Thursday, April 4: Negotiating Licenses Continuing Education Program (8 a.m. – 4 p.m.)
Friday, April 5: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Past, Present, and Future
Thursday, April 4
Negotiating Licenses Continuing Education Program
This continuing education course will be an all-day session in a format similar
to the one held last year for e-journals.
Morning Panel: Negotiating Library Contracts and Consortia Purchasing
This presentation by the following three experienced panelists will introduce the essentials a librarian needs to understand in order to amend most licensing agreements.Licensing Essentials
Faye Chadwell
This presentation will introduce the essentials a librarian needs to understand in order to amend most licensing agreements. These include authorized users and uses, pricing, various contractual elements like renewal and liability, and information that is important to libraries, like usage statistics. Participants will work through an agreement to learn about those components that can and should be changed to negotiate the best possible agreement for a library and its users. As time permits, participants may also gather tips on managing their agreements for electronic journals and working in a consortia setting to license an agreement.
A Short Term Perspective
Nanette Welton
Having only recently entered the lion’s den with publishers, vendors and aggregators, I can reflect on what I have learned in the past few months. I will report some of the things that have worked, observations along the way and ideas that I have for the future.
Navigating the Maze: My Experiences Negotiating Multi-Type Consortia Contracts
Patty Ayala
This session promises not to be academic in nature, as it is based on the experiences of one librarian who navigated the maze and ultimately got good deals! The topic will be covered by Patty Ayala who relays her own experience in learning how to get the best deals from vendors. Patty insists that everything she learned, she learned while negotiating for two years while working for the Statewide Database Licensing Project of the Washington State Library. Her talk will be subjective and experiential in nature, but will provide valuable tips that she picked up along the way. Her new job working as a vendor for the ProQuest Company will also enable her to give participants a bit of a view from the other side of the contract fence.
Afternoon Panel: Vendors' Presentation of Databases
Representatives from three major full-text vendors (Ovid, Ebsco, and ProQuest) will tell us
what they have to offer WMLA in terms of both content and subscription
options. Information about packages and their costs -- including pricing and
access models available for groups/consortia -- will be presented.
The vendors will focus on products that would be most beneficial and
practical for small- to medium-sized hospital libraries that are
operating under budgetary constraints. After each vendor presentation we will
have an opportunity to ask questions. Bring questions you’d like to have
the vendors address.
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Friday, April 5
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(CAM): Past, Present, and Future
| 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Business Meeting |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | NN/LM Report |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Consortial Journals Susan Barnes & Pamela Murray |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | CAM Search Tips and Databases Jane Saxton, Director of Library Services; Susan Banks, Librarian, Bastyr University |
| 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch in the cafeteria Vegetarian Buffet ($3.50 to $5.50, by weight) |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | From Cultism to CAM: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Historical Context James C. Whorton, Professor, Medical History and Ethics. Introduction by Colleen Weum, University of Washington |
| 2:00 – 2:15 | Break |
| 2:15 – 3:15 | The Future of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Ron Hobbs, N.D., Basic Sciences Faculty, Bastyr University |
| 3:15 – 3:30 | Discussion and Evaluations |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Tours of the Bastyr Botanical Garden |
Presenter Biographies
Patty Ayala has been a reference librarian, public library director and Washington State Library employee. Currently, she is working as a Database Specialist Sales Associate for the ProQuest Information and Learning Company. Patty is currently a member of the Washington State Library board, and will co-chair the 2004 WLA/PNLA Conference. In addition to her M.L.S., Patty also holds a M.A. in English Literature. She loves to read, attend the opera and spend time at the soccer matches of her 13-year old daughter. Patty lives in Olympia, Washington.
Susan Banks has been a librarian at Bastyr University since September 2000. In addition to conducting reference services and CAM research for the public and faculty members, she has been instrumental in designing a bibliographic instruction program tailored to the research needs of complementary and alternative medicine. She has extensive experience in public and community college libraries, and was the library liaison for Health and Human Services at Seattle Central Community College for two years.
Faye Chadwell has been the Head of Collection Development at the University of Oregon Libraries since February 1995. Before moving to Oregon, she worked at the University of South Carolina as the social sciences bibliographer and as a reference librarian. She is a member of the Policy and Planning Committee within the Collection Management and Development Section of ALA's ALCTS division and she co-chairs ALA's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table. Besides licensing electronic resources, her professional interests include collection assessment, cooperative collection development, and intellectual freedom. Ms. Chadwell has been a regular fiction reviewer for Library Journal since 1989 and her most recent publication is "A License to Kill For. . .," published in Managing Electronic Serials and edited by Pamela Bluh.
Ron Hobbs, N.D. received his naturopathic degree from Bastyr University. For the last fifteen years, he has served as a leader in naturopathic medical education, including two years as Dean of the University Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine. Currently he serves as an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University and at Antioch University in Seattle. Dr. Hobbs has taught and lectured extensively on herbal medicine and is co-author of the Natural Pharmacist Guide to Arthritis.
Jane Saxton, Director of Library Services at Bastyr University, has extensive administrative and research experience. In October 2000, she testified before the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy regarding the need for library resources and funding to keep pace with the rising demand for CAM health care services. In October 2001, she was invited to participate in a conference on Integration of Conventional and Complementary Medicine sponsored by the Tzu-Chi Institute (Vancouver, Canada) and Health Canada. In addition, she created the complementary and alternative medicine sections of an NNLM website, HEALTHINFOQUEST, which is intended to increase librarians’ awareness of issues in providing health information and improve their search techniques.
Nanette Welton has just recently accepted the position of Head, Information Resources for the Health Sciences Libraries at University of Washington. She began working at UW in January of 2001 first as an Information Management Librarian, then as Acting Head of Information Resources. Before moving to Seattle in January 2001, Nanette worked for GlaxoSmithKline, a large pharmaceutical company in Philadelphia, PA, as an Information Analyst. Prior to that she was a Reference and Serials Librarian at Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University. As a relative newcomer to the field of Librarianship, having received her Masters from Drexel University in June 1999, Nanette also brings to the profession her experience in finance, insurance and law
