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“How many thousand??!”The licensing landscape for membership organisations
UKSG 2009
Tom Bishop (The Royal College of Surgeons of England)
Sarah Butler (Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain)
The size and shape of it
• Scenario activity (Let’s pretend…)
• Presentation: Issues for membership libraries and information services – why are we “different”?
• Licences - activity and presentation
• Views from the floor
Takeaway menu
• An appreciation of key purchasing, licensing and environmental issues for membership and independent libraries
• Examples of successful approaches – what works?...
• … and what doesn’t?
• Nuggets from the floor
Membership/independent libraries and information services
“So, then… What makes you so special?”
Members geographically dispersed
UK and international
Multiple organisation sites
Access
Authentication
Defining locations
Definitions – what is a ‘member’ and what are their characteristics?
Intra-organisational differences
Working environments and affiliations
Nature of organisation vs. nature of members
Licence terms and calculations
‘Commercial’/non-commercial
Resource availability
Type of organisation
Funding streams
Library/information service - size and strength
Budget cyclesIncome and expenditure
Timing and planning
Organisational focus
Members information needs – specialist
Resource ‘packaging’
Focused information needs
Bundles, Big Deals,databases, title-by-title
Members’ affiliations
Organisational affiliations
External drivers and politics
Internal drivers and politics
Resource availability
Purchasing power, consortia etc.
Perceptions and power
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