NISO August and September Webinars Feature E-Licensing

["Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@niso.org>]

NISO's monthly webinars for August and September are open for 
registration. See descriptions below for each webinar as well as 
links for more information and to register.

AUGUST WEBINAR: E-BOOKS: A RAPIDLY EVOLVING MARKETPLACE

NISO's August webinar will be held on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 
from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the topic of E-Books: A 
Rapidly Evolving Marketplace.

While e-books have been slow to garner wide adoption, the past 
few years has seen greatly expanded interest and use of e-books. 
New models and applications are growing exponentially. This 
webinar will explore several key aspects of the e-book community: 
sales and licensing models for libraries, and developments with 
e-book file formats. Building on the free NISO/BISG forum 
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/ala09/bisg) held at the 
American Library Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, this 
webinar will focus on the business applications of creating, 
selling, and using e-books.

Topics and speakers are:

-- Creation, Formatting, and Distribution Options for E-books 
(Tino Fleischer, Atypon Systems, Inc.)

-- Business Models and Approaches for Selling E-books (Anne 
Orens, Independent Consultant)

-- Library Purchasing and Use of E-books (Speaker TBA)

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage 
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/ebooks09). Registration is 
per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the 
online recorded archive of the webinar. NISO and NASIG members 
receive a discounted member rate. A student discount is also 
available. Can't make it on the 12th? Register and gain access to 
the recorded archive for one year.

SEPTEMBER TWO-PART WEBINAR: E-RESOURCES LICENSING: THE GOOD, THE 
BAD, THE UGLY

NISO's September webinar will be in two-parts. Part I will be 
held on Wednesday, September 9 and Part II on Wednesday, 
September 16; both from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time). You need 
to register separately for each part and you may choose to 
register for only one part.

Not every librarian is a lawyer, but many have to have an 
in-depth understanding of legal issues to succeed in their jobs. 
Licensing, contract, and copyright law all have significant 
impacts on our community.

PART I of the webinar will provide an overview of the parts of 
copyright law with which librarians have historically been 
concerned and how the introduction of license agreements moved 
the library/publisher relationship more deeply into the realm of 
contract law. Participants will learn about basic legal 
terminology common to most licenses and about some distinctions 
and exceptions directly tied to the licensing of content.

PART II of the webinar will include an exploration of terms that 
may be of concern to libraries and solutions for mitigating 
problematic language. In addition, there will be an update on the 
NISO Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) recommended practice 
and the impact it is having in the community, including examples 
of how both libraries and publishers are integrating SERU into 
their workflows.

Judy Luther, President of Informed Strategies, and Seiden 
Lamoureux, Electronic Resources Librarian at North Carolina State 
University Libraries were just awarded the Coutts Award for 
Innovation in Electronic Resources Management by the Collection 
Management and Development Section (CMDS) of the Association for 
Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) for leading the 
development of SERU. The award recognizes significant and 
innovative contributions to electronic collections management and 
development practice.

Speakers for both parts of the Licensing webinars will be:

-- Trisha L. Davis, Associate Professor, Rights Management 
Coordinator, and Head, Serials & E-Resources Department, The Ohio 
State University Libraries

-- Selden Lamoureux, Electronic Resources Librarian, North 
Carolina State University Libraries

For more information and to register, visit the event webpages 
(Part 1: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/eresources09; Part 
2: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/licensing09). 
Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes 
access to the online recorded archive of the webinar. NISO and 
NASIG members receive a discounted member rate. A student 
discount is also available. Can't make it on the webinar date? 
Register and gain access to the recorded archive for one year.

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization