“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